README file Census Tract-Level Data, 1960: New York Extracts Author: United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census ICPSR Study Number: 7552 EDS Study Number: A1 1960-TRK in data subdirectory: 1 record/case, lrecl=10,800: Note: The original data has 6 records/case. This was reformated to 1 record/case with the program join6.pl in the /programs subdirectory the the files renamed with their state name. bytes records newyork.sav 7,662,832 3,536 New York State bronx.sav 820,176 374 Bronx county kings.sav 1,724,088 817 Kings (Brooklyn) county manhattan.sav 783,096 279 New York (Manhattan) county newyorkcity.sav 4,689,800 2,238 All 5 NY City boroughts queens.sav 1,333,648 680 Queens conty richmond.sav 197,040 88 Richmond (Staten Island) county 6 records/case, lrecl=1,800. Note: The numbers in the files names don't seem to match any known state numbering scheme. The first digit is "geographic division" and the second digit is "state within the division". in doc subdirectory: census60.pdf Codebook in PDF format (really awful) in program subdirectory: get-tract.sps Example of choosing tracts in Manhattan join6.pl Program used to join 6 record/case data into 1 record/case census60.sps Sample Spss program to read data (written by hand)