City Data: A Catalog of Data Sources for Small Cities. [Report No.: R-2612-HUD

Autor/in	Carroll, Stephen J. und weitere
Institution	Rand Corp., Santa Monica, CA.
Titel	City Data: A Catalog of Data Sources for Small Cities. [Report No.: R-2612-HUD
Quelle	(1980), (359 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	0-8330-0243-0
Schlagwörter	Nachschlagewerk; Databases; Information Sources; Municipalities; Quality of Life; Social Indicators + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Datenbank; Information source; Informationsquelle; Magistrat; Lebensqualität; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator
Abstract	An annotated listing of 272 sources of data dealing with the quality of life in individual small cities is presented. The quality of life in small cities is difficult to measure because information is scattered, in contrast to the considerable body of centralized information available on large urban centers. To remedy this situation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development contracted with the Rand Foundation to locate and catalog sources of data on small cities. The cities include all municipalities having at least 2500 residents. Only nonmetropolitan cities--those that lie outside Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs)--are included. Another criterion required that the data source be geographically comprehensive in its coverage of cities. A data source that excluded New England cities, for example, would be unacceptable. The varied kinds of information about small cities provided by this data source include population services offered; financial and government data; location and physical attributes; population and economy; commercial and financial services; cultural, intellectual, educational, and recreational services; health services; protective services; housing; transportation; communications; and environment and climate. For each data source the following information is provided: a brief description of content; geographic coverage; frequency of collection; years covered by the data; availability of the data in hardcopy or as a machine readable data file, and an agency contact point where the user can obtain more information. Caveats and comments concerning the data are also provided. (Author/RM)
Anmerkungen	The Rand Corporation, 1700 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90406 ($10.00).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01