Hi there,
There is a county characteristics file at icpsr:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/DSDR/studies/20660
This file contains an array of county characteristics by which researchers
can investigate contextual influences at the county level. Included are
population size and the components of population change during 2000-2005
and a wide range of characteristics on or about 2005: (1) population by
age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, (2) labor force size and unemployment,
(3) personal income, (4) earnings and employment by industry, (5) land
surface form topography, (6) climate, (7) government revenue and
expenditures, (8) crimes reported to police, (9) presidential election
results (10) housing authorized by building permits, (11) Medicare
enrollment, and (12) health profession shortage areas.
Yph
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Yphtach Lelkes
Assistant Prof. of Political Communication
Amsterdam School of Communication Research
University of Amsterdam
ylelkes.com
+31 (020) 525-3550
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Jakubow, Alexander (aj5ck) <
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> Hi All,
>
> I'm currently working on a project that requires the acquisition of a
> variety of demographic data at the level of individual US counties on an
> annual basis between 1972-present (or as close to present as possible).
>
> A comparativist by training, I've grown accustomed to using master,
> 'one-stop-shops' such as the Quality of Government dataset by Dahlberg et
> al for every conceivable variable and time period under the sun. Are there
> any analogous datasets in the field of American politics?
>
> I've already stumbled upon the now-defunct USA Counties database housed by
> the US Census. Support ended in 2010, and many of the variables of
> interest don't cover the entire span of years in my project. There is also
> a set of county and city data books out there from ICPSR and other places,
> but these are published intermittently.
>
> Short of going to the relevant bureaus (BLS, Census, CDC, etc.)
> individually, are there any one-stop-shops out there that I'm missing?
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
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> Empirical Research Librarian
> University of Virginia School of Law
>
> Phone: (434) 924-4736
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