File Documentation and Record Layout for CZLMA90.ASC


CZLMA90.ASC is a county-level equivalency file that contains information 
about the 1990 commuting zone and labor market area geographic schema.  
It is an ASCII file with a record length of 193 and records for 
3141 U.S. counties and county equivalents.


Item    Begin   End                 Description

FIPS       1      5   FIPS county code (character item) 

CZ90       7     11   1990 commuting zone code; first three digits indicate 
                      labor market area; commuting zones within LMAs are 
                      indicated by digits four and five (character item) 

NAME      13     52   County name (character item)

DISTANCE  54     61   Minimum distance within commuting zone cluster; an 
                      inverse measure of the strength of commuting ties 
                      among counties within a commuting zone (numeric item, F8.4)

POP90     63     70   1990 population (numeric item, integer)

CZ80      72     76   1980 commuting zone code (character item)

BEALE93   78     78   1993 Beale urban-rural continuum code (numeric item, integer)

MSA93     80     83   1993 metropolitan statistical area code (character item)

MSANAME   85    144   Metropolitan statistical area name (character item)

STPLACE  146    152   Code of largest place in commuting zone (state followed 
                      by place code; character item)

PLNAME   154    193   Name of largest place in commuting zone (character item)