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CZLMA903.EQV is a county-level equivalency file that contains all of the information in the CZLMA902.EQV basic equivalency file plus additional information about the 1990 commuting zone and labor market area geographic schema. It is an ASCII file with a record length of 193 and records for 3141 U.S. counties and county equivalents.


Item      Begin     End       Description

FIPS         1        5       FIPS county code (character item) 

CZ90         7       11       1990 commuting zone code; first
                                   three digits indicate labor
                                   market area; commuting zones
                                   within LMAs are indicated by
                                   digits four and five
                                   (character item) 

NAME        13       52       County name (character item)

DISTANCE    54       61       Minimum distance within commuting
                                   zone cluster; an inverse
                                   measure of the strength of
                                   commuting ties among counties
                                   within a commuting zone
                                   (numeric item, F8.4)

POP90       63       70       1990 population (numeric item,
                                   integer)

CZ80        72       76       1980 commuting zone code (character
                                   item)

BEALE93     78       78       1993 Beale urban-rural continuum
                                   code (numeric item, integer)

MSA93       80       83       1993 metropolitan statistical area
                                   code (character item)

MSANAME     85      144       Metropolitan statistical area name
                                   (character item)

STPLACE    146      152       Code of largest place in commuting
                                   zone (state followed by place
                                   code; character item)

PLNAME     154      193       Name of largest place in commuting
                                   zone (character item)

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