Details

Subject(s)

• Cartography—United States—Data processing [Browse]
• United States—Statistics [Browse]
• United States—Administrative and political divisions [Browse]
• United States [Browse]

Related name

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Statistics [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 8159. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 8159

Restrictions note

Use of these data are restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

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 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 nine variables provide state Federal Information Processing (FIPS) codes, county FIPS code, county name/county seat name, month county was created, day county was created, year county was created, latitude of county seat, longitude of county seat, and ICPSR county code.

Notes

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Type of data

1 data file + machine-readable documentation (PDF)

Time and place of event

Start: 1620; and end: 1983.

System details

Mode of access: Intranet.

Contents

Part 1: Data File

Other format(s)

Also available as downloadable files.

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