County Statistics File 1 (CO-STAT): [United States] (ICPSR 8314)

Published: Jan 18, 2006

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

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08314.v1

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Project Description

Summary

Data gathered from a variety of federal agencies and private organizations are contained in this collection which provides county statistics. Included in CO_STAT 1 are all data for counties published in the 1983 County and City Data Book and the 1982 State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, as well as a number of statistics not previously published. There are several levels of data (e.g., persons, housing units, and local governments). The collection supplies information on the following general areas: agriculture, banking, crime, education, elections, government, households, health, housing, labor, land area, manufactures, money income, personal income, population, poverty, retail trade, service industries, social insurance and human services, savings and loan associations, veterans, vital statistics, wholesale trade, and journey to work. Records are included for each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia as well as 3,137 counties or county equivalents.

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. County Statistics File 1 (CO-STAT): [United States]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08314.v1

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Subject Terms

agriculture banking census data crime education elections government government agencies government expenditures health households housing human services income labor force manufacturing industry mortality rates population poverty retail industry savings and loans associations service industry states (USA) trade veterans vital statistics welfare services

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 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

Data Collection Notes

The Footnotes File contains notes associated with specific data cells which qualify the data in some way. Examples include a reference period different from the norm, the combination of data for two or more areas, or incomplete reporting of data among areas. Before beginning analysis, the data user is urged to review the applicable footnotes for data items to be used.

Methodology

Universe

The universe varies from item to item within the file, e.g., all persons, all housing units, all local governments, etc.

Data Source

COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK, 1983, STATE AND METROPOLITAN AREA DATA BOOK, 1982, and data supplied by several federal agencies including the Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Social Security Administration, as well as private organizations such as the American Dental Association, the American Hospital Association, and the American Medical Association.

Data Type(s)

aggregate data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1985-03-18

Version Date

2006-01-18

Version History

2006-01-18 File CB8314.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

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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