These Block Equivalency Files (BEFs) are the whole 2010 Census tabulation block representations of the 2014 State Legislative District plans as submitted by the states to the U.S. Census Bureau. The .ZIP file contains a national block equivalency file and individual state files for all states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, if they reported changes during this collection cycle. The fields in these files should be imported as text to preserve leading zeros.
In instances where plans included split 2010 Census tabulation blocks, the Census Bureau requested that the state assign the whole block to one district for the purpose of tabulating data. These block equivalency files contain the whole block tabulation plan.
Two states split blocks in both their 2014 State Legislative District- Upper Chamber (SLDU) and State Legislative District- Lower Chamber (SLDL) plans: Minnesota and Ohio. Delaware split blocks in their SLDU plans. Connecticut and Vermont split blocks in their SLDL plan.