Estimates of Eligible Voters in Counties of the United States, 1972 (ICPSR 7528)

Published: Feb 16, 1992

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

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07528.v1

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Project Description

Summary

Census data on the number of eligible voters in the United States in 1972 as well as the number and percentage of citizens who voted for president in 1972 are presented in this data collection. Both county-level and state-level records are provided, with a unique numeric identification number assigned to each county or independent city within each state. Individual state information is presented in regional group order,(i.e., New England, Middle Atlantic, East North Central, West North Central, Solid South, Border States, Mountain States, Pacific States, and External States).

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Estimates of Eligible Voters in Counties of the United States, 1972. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07528.v1

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Subject Terms

census data counties demographic characteristics presidential elections states (USA) voter turnout voters

Geographic Coverage

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

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1972

Date of Collection

1972

Methodology

Universe

Eligible voters in the United States in 1972.

Data Source

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. "Language Minority, Illiteracy and Voting Data Used in Making Determinations for the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1975 (Public Law 94-73)." CURRENT POPULATION REPORTS, SERIES P-25 no. 627 (June 1976).

Data Type(s)

census/enumeration data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1984-06-28

Version Date

1992-02-16

Version History

1984-06-28 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.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.

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