This is the 1977 census of governments. It has MS-DOS line endings. The logical record length is 2115 plus 2 bytes for line endings, for every file. File A (empa[123].raw) contains data for each individual state and local government. File B (empb.raw) has data for county areas (local governmental units within each county) File C (empc.raw) has US summary and state summaries for many levels of governments. File A 79333 records in documentation 79928 in actual file. File B 3118 records in documentation 3120 in actual file. File C 468 records in documentation and in actual file. /* Test of 1977 Census of Governments file - Print state id for each state Count records in File A */ options nocenter ls=80; filename raw pipe 'zcat /home/data/census.govs/1977/empa[1-5].raw.Z'; data; infile raw lrecl=2117; input type 3-3 state 1-2; if type eq 0; put state; run; proc means; run;