Basic Geographic and Historic Data for Interfacing ICPSR Data Sets, 1620-1983 [United States]

Principal Investigator(s): Sechrist, Robert P.

Summary: This data collection contains the basic information about all counties in the coterminous United States needed for mapping county-based data. It provides an interface between ICPSR datasets and the mapping programs SAS/GRAPH, SURFACE II, and SYMAP. Cloropleth and isopleth maps can be produced by match-merging this dataset with any other dataset (special facilities exist for ICPSR datasets) and running the merged data against a cartographic program. Isopleth mapping programs, using the latitude a... (more info)

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Dataset

Documentation:

Codebook.pdf

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SAS SPSS Stata ASCII Delimited All Dataset Files (6,678 KB)
ASCII + SAS Setup SPSS Setup Stata Setup

Sechrist, Robert P. Basic Geographic and Historic Data for Interfacing ICPSR Data Sets, 1620-1983 [United States]. ICPSR08159-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-11-06. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08159.v2

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08159.v2

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Summary: This data collection contains the basic information about all counties in the coterminous United States needed for mapping county-based data. It provides an interface between ICPSR datasets and the mapping programs SAS/GRAPH, SURFACE II, and SYMAP. Cloropleth and isopleth maps can be produced by match-merging this dataset with any other dataset (special facilities exist for ICPSR datasets) and running the merged data against a cartographic program. Isopleth mapping programs, using the latitude and longitude coordinates provided for each county seat, can produce maps of ICPSR data. Cloropleth mapping of county-level data can be accomplished after merging by running the merged dataset through SAS/GRAPH. The variables provide state Federal Information Processing (FIPS) codes, county FIPS codes, county names/county seat names, the month, day, and year in which each county was created, the latitude and longitude of county seats, as well as the ICPSR state and county codes.

Subject Terms: counties, FIPS, FIPS codes, geographic information systems, states (USA)

Smallest Geographic Unit: county

Geographic Coverage: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York (state), North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsim, Wyoming

Time Period:

1620--1983

Unit of Observation: counties within states

Data Types: administrative records data

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.

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-07-13

Version History:

2012-11-06 SPSS, SAS, and Stata setup files, as well as SPSS and Stata system files and a SAS transport (CPORT) file have been added to the collection. The codebook has been updated.

2005

Horrace, William C., Kantor, Shawn, Fishback, Price V. Do Federal Programs Affect Internal Migration? The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Mobility During the Great Depression. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

2001

Fishback, Price V., Horrace, William C., Kantor, Shawn . The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Local Economic Activity: An Examination of Retail Sales, 1929-1939. NBER Working Paper Series. 8108, Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.