Re: MATCHING COUNTIES

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From: AJK
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 11:57

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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


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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