School District Estimates of  Poverty -- 1995

              Description of Files on the FTP Sites


I.    File Organization:

    The files in this directory contain estimates of population and poverty 
    for every 1995 and 1996 school district in the United States. There is one 
    file for each of the States, the District of Columbia, and the entire
    United States. Each file has geographical identifiers, including the
    Department of Education's Common Core of Data (CCD) ID and District name,
    and estimates of the total population, population of school-age children,
    and number of poor school-age children related to the head of the household.

    
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II.   File Names

    
     There are two kinds of files here:

        1) USSD95.dat           (A large file containing the estimates for
                                 every school district in the Nation)

        2) sd95_[STATE].dat     (Smaller files containing estimates for 
                                 every school district in an individual State)

           where [STATE] = standard two-letter postal abbreviations. 



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III.  Record Layout for Files

      Position   Variable

          1- 2       FIPS State code
          5- 9       CCD District ID
         11-45       District Name
         47-54       Estimated Total Population 
         56-63       Estimated Population of Children 5 to 17 years of Age
         65-72       Estimated Number of Poor Children 5 to 17 years
                     of Age Related to the Head of Household 
         74-93       A tag indicating the file name and date of creation