Socioeconomic indicators for functional urban regions in the United States, 1820-19701970

Social, demographic, and economic information from the decennial United States Censuses of 1820-1970 as well as other sources is included in this dataset. The data were originally obtained from the ICPSR holdings of United States census materials and augmented by information prepared by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the United States Department of Commerce. The indicators are reported for 171 functional urban regions encompassing the entire contiguous United States. The regions, established in the early 1960's by BEA, comprise whole counties surrounding a central SMSA node which serves as a recipient location of work commuting or a center of newspaper circulation, wholesale trade, or banking transactions. The collection includes normalized census measures as well as derived measures (Z-scores and log values) computed by Sam Bass Warner, Jr., and Sylvia Fleisch.