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Rural-Urban Continuum Codes for Metro and Nonmetro Counties

Margaret A. Butler, Margaret A. Butler

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 1990

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Abstract

This report provides a one-digit code for each of 10 classifications for all U.S. counties. The classifications describe a county by degree of urbanization and nearness to a metro area. These codes allow researchers to break county data into finer residential groups than the standard metro-nonmetro classification of the Bureau of the Census.

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