Number of General-Purpose Local Governments Per United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas (including both PMSAs and CMSAs) from 2002 Census of Governments (ICPSR 27806)

Version Date: Aug 4, 2011

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Principal Investigator(s):
Andrew Bennett, University of Maryland School of Law; Paul Johnson, Vassar College

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27806.v1

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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.

Citation

Bennett, Andrew, and Johnson, Paul. Number of General-Purpose Local Governments Per United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas (including both PMSAs and CMSAs) from 2002 Census of Governments. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-08-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27806.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

Metropolitan Statistical Areas

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2002

Date of Collection

2002
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Universe

Number of General Purpose Local Governments in United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas

Unit(s) of Observation

metropolitan area

Data Source

United States Census Bureau's 2002 Census of Governments

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Original Release Date

2011-08-04

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • 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. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27806.v1

2011-08-04 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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