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Table 4 Percentages of addresses geocoded to 1990 census and then assigned to a 1960, 1970, and 1980 census tract, the LC-SES study, 2001–2002. 1Jackson, MS & Washington Co., MD print files of U.S. Bureau of the Census housing data for 1960 [34]. 2Includes some addresses sent to vendor but not assigned a latitude and longitude.

From: Historical measures of social context in life course studies: retrospective linkage of addresses to decennial censuses

 

% of All Addresses

Street addresses for 1960 (N = 8200)

 

Sent to geocoding vendor

89

   Vendor assigned latitude and longitude

61

1960 tract assigned using overlay/comparability file

26

1960 Assigned area by overlay (non tract area)1

16

1970 tract Assigned (non tract area-1960)

16

   1960 tract Assigned manually2

8

Total addresses assigned tract

66

Street addresses for 1970 (N = 12671)

 

Sent to geocoding vendor

93

   Vendor assigned latitude and longitude

71

1970 tract assigned using overlay

69

   1970 tract assigned manually2

7

Total addresses assigned tract

76

Street addresses for 1980 (N = 3277)

 

Sent to geocoding vendor

94

   Vendor assigned latitude and longitude

81

1970 tract assigned using overlay

80

   1970 tract assigned manually2

5

Total addresses assigned tract

85