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County and City Data Book [California] Consolidated File: County Data, 1944-1977


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Producer:  United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census.

Abstract:  This study is a compendium of data for all counties in the United States in the period 1944-1977. The data provide diverse information ranging from local government activities to population estimates and characteristics to housing unit descriptors. Included is information on local government revenues, property taxes, capital outlay, and debts, and expenditures on education, highways, public welfare, health and hospitals, and police, as well as information on births, deaths, schooling, labor force, employment, family income, family characteristics, electoral votes, and housing characteristics. Additional variables provide information on manufacturing, retail and wholesale trade, banking, mineral industries, farm population, agriculture, crime, and weather.

Topics:  Banking, Finance and Insurance; Business and Industry; Crime, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice; Education; Elections; Health and Vital Statistics; Housing Characteristics and Costs; Income, Poverty and Cost of Living; Land, Water and Climate; Population and Demographics; Public Finance, Government and Taxes; Social Services and Public Assistance; Work, Labor and Employment; Agriculture and Natural Resources; Transportation

Time Period Covered:  1939 to 1977

Geographic Areas Covered:  County, State

Kind of Data:  Aggregate Data

Bibliographic Citation for Source Dataset:  U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK [UNITED STATES] CONSOLIDATED FILE: COUNTY DATA, 1944-1977 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1978. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999.

Bibliographic Citation for Counting California version of file:  County and City Data Book [California] Consolidated File: County Data, 1944-1977 [on-line data file] / prepared by the California Digital Library, --Oakland, California: [producer and distributor], 2003.

Notes:  County and City Data Book 1947-1977: Known Anomalies in Data and Metadata

This brief note documents known anomalies and errors in metadata or data found in the County Data Book (1947-1977) historical file:

Table CCNT19 - White Population: The value for 1940, shown here as it appears in the original data file, has an error in the 10's digit. On the original data file, the tens digit is always zero. Nothing has been done to correct this error in the file.

Table CCNT286 - Manufacturing Employees: The values for the years 1967 and 1972, shown here as they appear in the original data file, must be multiplied by 1,000 to give the correct value. The values for the other years are correct as presented.

Table CCNT293 - Production Workers Hours Worked: The hours worked item for the year 1958, shown here as it appears in the original data file, must be multiplied by 10 to give the correct value. The value for 1963 is correct as presented.

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