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U.S. Census Grids (Summary File 3), 1990: Metropolitan Statistical Areas
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The U.S. Census Grids (
Description
Summary
File 3), 1990: Metropolitan Statistical Areas data set contains grids of demographic and socioeconomic data from the year 1990 U.S. Census in ASCII and GeoTIFF formats for 50 metropolitan statistical areas with at least one million in population. The grids have a resolution of 7.5 arc-seconds (0.002075 decimal degrees), or approximately 250 square meters. The gridded variables are based on census block geography from Census 1990 TIGER/Line Files and census variables (population, households, and housing variables).
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This data set is produced by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
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- Google Scholar search results scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.7927%2FH4F18WNN ↗
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- Download this dataset sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/usgrid-v2-app/?geoType=city&year=1990&summaryFile=SF3 ↗
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- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/u-s-census-grids-summary-file-3-1990-metropolitan-stat… ↗
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Catalogue records · 1
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Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics · Social Science
- Inferred from text
- Human geography 72%
Provenance · 1 source records, 12 field assertions
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| NASA Data Portal | 320ceecc-fbb7-42d7-8637-d8c569f89040 | 11 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
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| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
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| description | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
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| publication_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
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