United States Congressional District Data Books, 1961-1965 (ICPSR 10)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
United States. Bureau of the Census

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00010.v1

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Summary

This study contains selected electoral and aggregate economic, ecological, and demographic data at the congressional district level for districts of the 87th and 88th Congresses in the period 1961-1965. Data are provided for the number of votes cast for the Democratic and the Republican parties, and the percentage of votes cast for the majority party in the biennial elections for United States Representatives in the period 1952-1962, as well as the total votes cast for the office of president, and the number of votes cast for each party's presidential candidate in the 1952, 1956, and 1960 election. Data are also provided for population and housing characteristics, including total population by household, group quarters, institutions, age group, gender, marital status, race, nationality, and urban and rural residency. Additional demographic variables describe the congressional districts in terms of education, income, employment status and occupation, veteran status, births, deaths, and marriages.

Citation

United States. Bureau of the Census. United States Congressional District Data Books, 1961-1965. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00010.v1

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Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1961 -- 1965

Data Collection Notes

  1. See also the related data collection, UNITED STATES CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT DATA BOOK FOR THE NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS, 1973 (ICPSR 0011)

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Universe

United States 87th and 88th congressional districts in the period 1961-1965.

Data Source

(1) United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census, and (2) Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) electoral returns data

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Original Release Date

1984-06-20

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:
  • United States. Bureau of the Census. United States Congressional District Data Books, 1961-1965. ICPSR00010-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 196?. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00010.v1

1984-06-20 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:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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