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Record of American Democracy, State Level MCD-Group Data for WV

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Title Record of American Democracy, State Level MCD-Group Data for WV
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8ES5AV
 
Creator King, Gary
Palmquist, Bradley
Adams, Greg
Altman, Micah
Benoit, Kenneth
Gay, Claudine
Lewis, Jeffrey B.
Mayer, Russ
Reinhardt, Eric
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The Record of American Democracy (ROAD) data provide election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic details about the American public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation. The NSF-supported ROAD project spans every state in the country from 1984 through 1990 (including some off-year elections). These data enable research on topics such as electoral behavior, the political characteristics of local community context, electoral geography, the role of minority groups in elections and legislative redistricting, split ticket voting and divided government, and elections under federalism.


Another set of files has added to these roughly 30-40 political variables an additional 3,725 variables merged from the 1990 United States Census for 47,327 aggregate units called MCD Groups. The MCD Group is a construct for purposes of this data collection. It is based on a merging of the electoral precincts and Census Minor Civil Divisions (MCDs). An MCD is about the size of a city or town. An MCD Group is smaller than or equal to a county and (except in California) is greater
than or equal to the size of an MCD. The MCD Group units completely tile the United States landmass. This particular study contains the files for the State Level MCD Group Data for the state of West Virginia.


Documentation and frequently asked questions are available online at the ROAD Website. A downloadable PDF codebook is also available in the files section of this study.
 
Subject congressional districts
election districts
election returns
elections
local elections
national elections
redistrcting
state elections
voter registration
voter turnout
voting behavior
voting precints
 
Date 1997
 
Type census/enumeration data