TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jaeger,David A.
AU  - Loeb,Susanna
AU  - Turner,Sarah E.
AU  - Bound,John
TI  - Coding Geographic Areas Across Census Years:  Creating Consistent       Definitions of Metropolitan Areas
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6772
PY  - 1998
Y2  - October 1998
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6772
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6772.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David Jaeger
Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212 817 8261
E-Mail: djaeger@gc.cuny.edu

Susanna Loeb
524 CERAS, 520 Galvez Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305
Tel: 650/725-4262
E-Mail: sloeb@stanford.edu

Sarah Turner
Department of Economics
University of Virginia
249 Ruffner Hall
Charlottesville, VA  22903-2495
Tel: 434/924-7857
Fax: 434/924-1384
E-Mail: sturner@virginia.edu

John Bound
Department of Economics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Tel: 734/998-7149
Fax: 734/998-7415
E-Mail: jbound@umich.edu
AB  - This paper presents suggested matches for the geographical coding (geocoding) of metropolitan areas in the 1970, 1980, and 1990 Censuses.  The Census Bureau used different definitions and taxonomies to describe the geography of metropolitan areas in these three Census years.  As a result, the geographical areas referred to by the standard Census Bureau definitions differ among the three Census data sets.  The geographic matching scheme explained in this paper attempts to maximize consistency over time for metropolitan areas in the U.S.
ER  -