County and City Data Book, 1977

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Label

County and City Data Book, 1977

Creator

• United States. Bureau of the Census
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Author

• United States. Bureau of the Census

Contributor

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

Subject

• Expenditures, Public
• Families
• Industries
• Labor supply
• Revenue
• Taxation
• admin
• aggregate
• agriculture
• banking
• census data
• cities
• counties
• crime
• debt
• demographic characteristics
• economic conditions
• education expenditures
• employment
• family relationships
• government expenditures
• government revenue
• household composition
• housing
• housing units
• human services
• income
• industrial production
• labor force
• manufacturing industry
• medical
• municipal services
• population characteristics
• population estimates
• states (USA)
• survey
• Banks and banking
• trade
• vital statistics
• voting behavior
• weather
• taxes
• Business
• Commerce
• Economic history

Genre

• survey
• medical
• aggregate
• admin

Summary

This study is a compendium of data presented for regions, census divisions, states, counties, cities, Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs), and standard federal administrative regions in the United States in 1977. The data provide diverse information ranging from government activities to population estimates and characteristics to housing unit descriptors. Included is selected information on government revenues, property taxes, and debts, and expenditures on education, highways, public welfare, health and hospitals, and police and fire, as well as information on births, deaths, schooling, labor force, employment, family income, family characteristics, marriage, divorce, electoral votes, and housing characteristics. Additional variables provide information on manufacturing, retail and wholesale trade, banking, mineral industries, farm population, agriculture, crime, and weather. The data were received from the Census Bureau as five separate files and were merged into one file. See also the related data collections, COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK [UNITED STATES] CONSOLIDATED FILE: CITY DATA, 1944-1977 (ICPSR 7735), and COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK [UNITED STATES] CONSOLIDATED FILE: COUNTY DATA, 1947-1977 (ICPSR 7736)