County-level political, economic, and social statistics for New York state

Description

This data collection has 67 variables which contain political, economic, and social data covering five years: 1962, 1966, 1971, 1976, and 1978. Information was collected from fifty-seven counties in the State of New York excluding those in New York City. The variables cover taxes, revenues, expenditures, federal aid, demographic variables, and vote returns for President, Senator, and Governor. These data are stored in card-image format, with five cards of data per county per year for each of the five years. The data are arranged first by year, then by county, and then by deck number.