Hi Paul,  Why not use the STF3  file by zip code data  http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/zipstats.html and combine it with the FEC individual file data by zip code?

John

John McNutt, Professor
University of Delaware, SUAPP/CCRS
302.831.0765



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From: Paul Gronke <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [POLMETH] Addresses --> Census data
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:01:53 -0700

Colleagues

I have a senior writing a thesis who would like to track changing  
patterns of campaign donations.  He's interested in replicating and  
extending Michael Malbin's work on how patterns of donations have  
changed over the past few cycles.

I would like him to attach Census demographic information to the FEC  
campaign donations dataset (actually, he's downloaded these from open  
secrets).

I am not familiar with how you attach a Census tract or block  
identifier to an address, and if this can be done in a relatively  
straightforward (and not overly expensive) way.  The student is fairly  
adept with Stata but not tremendously so.  This is something I'm not  
averse to learning myself, but I am hoping to find an off the shelf  
solution, or perhaps someone that has already done with with the 2008,  
2004, and 2000 files and might be willing to share a dataset.

Thank you
Paul G.

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