School District Estimates of  Poverty -- 1997

              Description of Files on the FTP Sites


I.    File Organization:

    The files in this directory contain estimates of population and poverty 
    for every 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 the estimated 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) USSD97.dat           (A large file containing the estimates for
                                 every school district in the Nation)

        2) sd97_[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 (00 for US record)
          4- 8       CCD District ID
         10-74       District Name
         76-83       Estimated Total Population 
         85-92       Estimated Population of Children 5 to 17 years of Age
         94-101      Estimated Number of Poor Children 5 to 17 years
                     of Age Related to the Head of Household 
        103-123      A tag indicating the file name and date of creation