Description & Citation--Study No. 7697

• Bibliographic Description
• Scope of Study
• Methodology
• Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

07697

County and City Data Book, 1977

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK, 1977. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2000. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07697.v1

County and City Data Book [United States] Series

Scope of Study

This study is a compendium of data presented for regions, census divisions, states, counties, cities, Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs), and standard federal administrative regions in the United States in 1977. The data provide diverse information ranging from government activities to population estimates and characteristics to housing unit descriptors. Included is selected information on government revenues, property taxes, and debts, and expenditures on education, highways, public welfare, health and hospitals, and police and fire, as well as information on births, deaths, schooling, labor force, employment, family income, family characteristics, marriage, divorce, electoral votes, and housing characteristics. Additional variables provide information on manufacturing, retail and wholesale trade, banking, mineral industries, farm population, agriculture, crime, and weather. The data were received from the Census Bureau as five separate files and were merged into one file. See also the related data collections, COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK [UNITED STATES] CONSOLIDATED FILE: CITY DATA, 1944-1977 (ICPSR 7735), and COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK [UNITED STATES] CONSOLIDATED FILE: COUNTY DATA, 1947-1977 (ICPSR 7736).

agriculture, banking, census data, cities, counties, crime, debts, demographic characteristics, economic conditions, education expenditures, employment, family relationships, government expenditures, government revenues, household composition, housing, housing units, human services, income, industrial production, labor force, manufacturing industry, municipal services, population characteristics, population estimates, states (USA), taxes, trade, vital statistics, voting behavior, weather

United States

• 1977

Regions, census divisions, states, counties, cities, Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs), and standard federal administrative regions in the United States in 1977.

administrative records data, and aggregate data

(1) The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site. (2) This collection includes some items from the 1970 decennial Census as well as population estimates for subsequent years, statistics from the economic census of the 1970s, and data on elections, school enrollment, health, housing, and local government operations for the 1971 to 1976 period.

Methodology

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOKS. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1944-1977.

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Access and Availability

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

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