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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 07:57:10 EDT
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- From: AJK@NIHCU.BITNET
- Subject: Re: MATCHING COUNTIES
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- > IS THERE A SET OF MATCHING CODES OR OTHER PROCEDURE TO MATCH CENSUS
- > BUREAU (EG., CITY-COUNTY DATA BOOK TAPES) WITH CDC OR PUBLIC HEALTH
- > SERVICE COUNTIES FOR RECORDING DEATHS BY HOMICIDE?
- > JIMMY NORR
- > SOCIOLOGY-UIC
- > U08345@UICVM.BITNET
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- The Census (and supposedly other US agencies) use FIPS (Federal
- Information Processing Standards) codes to id counties.
- SPSS graphics manual has a list of these. SPSS has
- files of the names of counties as value labels.
- IFF the non-census source followed the rules it should be
- trivial to match the files.
- IFF you only need data for a few counties from the CCDB tape
- you can find them on the tape & use their FIPS codes to
- get the boundary files for mapping in SPSS.
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