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. 2004 Nov 17;3:27. doi: 10.1186/1476-072X-3-27

Table 4.

Percentages of addresses geocoded to 1990 census and then assigned to a 1960, 1970, and 1980 census tract, the LC-SES study, 2001–2002. 1Jackson, MS & Washington Co., MD print files of U.S. Bureau of the Census housing data for 1960 [34]. 2Includes some addresses sent to vendor but not assigned a latitude and longitude.

% of All Addresses
Street addresses for 1960 (N = 8200)
Sent to geocoding vendor 89
 Vendor assigned latitude and longitude 61
  1960 tract assigned using overlay/comparability file 26
  1960 Assigned area by overlay (non tract area)1 16
  1970 tract Assigned (non tract area-1960) 16
 1960 tract Assigned manually2 8
Total addresses assigned tract 66

Street addresses for 1970 (N = 12671)
Sent to geocoding vendor 93
 Vendor assigned latitude and longitude 71
  1970 tract assigned using overlay 69
 1970 tract assigned manually2 7
Total addresses assigned tract 76

Street addresses for 1980 (N = 3277)
Sent to geocoding vendor 94
 Vendor assigned latitude and longitude 81
  1970 tract assigned using overlay 80
 1970 tract assigned manually2 5
Total addresses assigned tract 85