Here is the list of files provided by the National Archives: File Descriptions for I00069 CENSUS OF GOVERNMENTS, 1972: GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT AND FINANCE FILES ____________________________________________________________________ [May 15, 1996] The files described below were not provided through the ICPSR, but rather straight from the Bureau of the Census, via NBER. They include all the data in the ICPSR study, plus some additional information. The files are in raw ASCII format. Filename Contents -------- -------- 0069 .des Study Description (from ICPSR) 0069ea1 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Employment, AL-ID 0069ea2 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Employment, IL 0069ea3 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Employment, IN-MA 0069ea4 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Employment, MI-MN 0069ea5 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Employment, MS-MT 0069ea6 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Employment, NE-NM 0069ea7 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Employment, NY-OK 0069ea8 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Employment, OR-PA 0069ea9 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Employment, RI-TN 0069ea10.dat Census of Governments, 1972, Employment, TX-VA 0069ea11.dat Census of Governments, 1972, Employment, WA-WY 0069eb .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Employment, County Area Summaries 0069ec .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Employment, State Summaries 0069fa1 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, AL-AR 0069fa2 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, CA 0069fa3 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, CO-HI 0069fa4 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, ID-IA 0069fa5 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, KS 0069fa6 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, KY-MA 0069fa7 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, MI-MS 0069fa8 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, MO-NH 0069fa9 .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, NJ-OH 0069fa10.dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, OK-PA 0069fa11.dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, RI-TN 0069fa12.dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, TX 0069fa13.dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, UT-WV 0069fa14.dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, WI-WY 0069fb .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, County Area Summaries 0069fc .dat Census of Governments, 1972, Finances, State Summaries There are 2 surveys (Employment (E) and Finance (F)) and 3 levels of aggregation (Local (A), County (B) and State (C)). After concatenating like files, this gives us 6 files: Name Survey Level lrecl cg72ea.z employment local 2610+2 cg72eb.z employment county " cg72ec.z employment state " cg72fa.z finance local 4338+2 cg72fb.z finance county " cg72fc.z finance state " MS-DOS line-ending have been added to the files, hence the additional two bytes added to the data record.