Number of General-Purpose Local Governments Per United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas (including both PMSAs and CMSAs) from 2002 Census of Governments (ICPSR 27806)
Principal Investigator(s): Bennett, Andrew, University of Maryland School of Law; Johnson, Paul, Vassar College
Summary:
Extracted from the 2002 Census of Governments, this dataset provides the number of general-purpose local governments in each United States Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Data from Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas (CMSAs) and their component Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas (PMSAs) are included. There are nine variables in this study. They contain information on locations (city and state); Metropolitan Statistical Areas; population at each location in the year 2000; number of General-Purpose Governments at each location as well as per 100,000 people; water, land, and total area in square miles; and General-Purpose Governments per 100,000 square miles of land area.
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Citation
Bennett, Andrew, and Paul Johnson. Number of General-Purpose Local Governments Per United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas (including both PMSAs and CMSAs) from 2002 Census of Governments. ICPSR27806-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-08-04. doi:10.3886/ICPSR27806.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27806.v1
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: census data, land distribution, local governments, metropolitan statistical areas, population
Smallest Geographic Unit: Metropolitan Statistical Areas
Geographic Coverage: United States
Time Period:
- 2002
Date of Collection:
- 2002
Unit of Observation: metropolitan area
Universe: Number of General Purpose Local Governments in United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas
Data Types: census/enumeration data
Methodology
Data Source:
United States Census Bureau's 2002 Census of Governments
Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR 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, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Original ICPSR Release: 2011-08-04
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