Andrew,
This site calculates population weighted mappings of FIPS (and other
markers, like Zip codes) to congressional districts:
http://mcdc2.missouri.edu/websas/geocorr2k.html
-Greg
At 10:24 AM 9/30/2009, Andrew Jones wrote:
>Hi. Has anyone come up with a technique that translates FIPS
>(county) level data to congressional districts? My crude
>approximation was to evenly split counties that covered more than
>one congressional district (CD). For example, where a county was in
>two CDs, I would split the county effect between the two, assigning
>each of the CDs 50% of the county level variable I was measuring.
>Of course counties are not evenly split between CDs. Has anyone
>worked out how counties are actually split between CDs for the 2000
>Census, say by population or by land area?
>
>Andrew Jones
>
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