README file

1980 Census of Population and Housing: Summary Tape File 3a 

Author:  U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
ICPSR Study Number:  08071
EDS Study Number:    A1 1980-3A

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in /data subdirectory:

Note: LRECL=2016 for all raw data files and 6 cards/case.  Divide #rec numbers
below by 6 to get number of cases.  Case is a geographic unit.   Cases are
sorted by sumlev within county, Albany to Yates.

                             bytes        #recs

 bronx.dat                   16,507,128   8,184  Bronx records
 kings.dat                   35,337,840  17,580  Brooklyn records
 queens.dat                  28,996,392  14,376  Queens records
 richmond.dat                 4,066,272   2,016  Staten Island records


 newyork.por                 3,558,816    7,298  Manhattan records
 kings.dat                  1,745,550    17,580  Brooklyn records


1980censusdataPR-new.dta       32,870
1980censusdataPR-new.sav       48,952


in /doc subdirectory:

 ny-counties.freq           Frequencies on all NY Counties.
 ny-geo-equiv.list          Equivalency file generated by Spss program
                                 geolist.sps
 nystate-sumlev.freq        Frequencies on SUMLEV for NY state
 nycity-county.codes.list   Codes and names for NY City counties (boroughs)
 nycity.freq                Frequencies on SUMLEV and COUNTRY vars for NY City 
 stf3a-80-pr.pdf            Codebook for Puerto Rice (*NOT* the same as
                                 for states)
 stf3a-80.cbk               Data Dictionary created from censpac files
 stf3a-80.pdf               Data Dictionary in PDF format from ICPSR

in /programs subdirectory:

 1980-all.sps               Spss program defining all variables
 geolist.sps                Spss program to create equivalency file
 mixed1.sps                 Sample program - file type mixed
 nest1.sps                  Sample program - file type nested
 pr.sps                     Sample program for Puerto Rico
 stf3a-pull-cntys.perl      Program that created Boro data files
 sumrylv.sps                Program to create SUMLEV frequencies.