School District Estimates of  Poverty -- 1999

              Description of Files on the FTP Sites


I.    File Organization:

    The files in the FTP directory contain estimates of population and
    poverty.  The school districts for which we have estimates were 
    identified in the 2001 school district mapping project's survey
    which asked for all school districts as of July 15, 2001. Thus the 1999 
    estimates reflect poverty in 1999 of the population in 2000 for school 
    district boundaries in the 2001-2002 school year.  There is one 
    file for each of the states, the District of Columbia, and the entire 
    United States.  Each file contains the FIPS state code, Department of 
    Education Common Core of Data (CCD) ID numbers, District names, 
    the total population, population of school-age children, and 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) USSD99.dat           (A large file containing the estimates for
                                 every school district in the Nation)

        2) sd99_[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       Total Population 
         85-92       Population of Relevant Children 5 to 17 years of Age
         94-101      Estimated Number of Relevant 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