County and City Data Book, 1972 (ICPSR 61)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
Summary:
This study contains selected economic, demographic, and electoral data for counties, cities, and incorporated areas of 25,000 inhabitants or more, urbanized areas, and Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs), in the entire United States. For each of the seven data files, information is provided on population characteristics, income, occupation, education, household characteristics, age, and nationality. Data are also provided on presidential votes, the leading party, Social Security and public assistance, and rural population and agriculture (Parts 2 and 3), local government general revenue and expenditures, taxes, employment, manufacturing establishments, retail trade, wholesale establishments, and yearly payroll (Parts 2, 3, and 6), and crime, hospitals, and seasonal weather conditions (Part 6).
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Citation
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. County and City Data Book, 1972. ICPSR00061-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-02-12. doi:10.3886/ICPSR00061.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00061.v1
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: agriculture, census data, cities, counties, crime, demographic characteristics, education, employment, government expenditures, government revenues, household composition, human services, income, manufacturing industry, party membership, population characteristics, Social Security, states (USA), taxes, trade, voting behavior
Geographic Coverage: United States
Time Period:
- 1972
Universe: Counties, cities and incorporated areas of 25,000 inhabitants or more, urbanized areas, and Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs) in the entire United States.
Data Types: census/enumeration data, machine-readable text, survey data
Methodology
Data Source:
United States 1970 Census of Population and Housing
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:
- Standardized missing values.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 1984-06-20
Version History:
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 7 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
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