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This chapter illustrates ways to align census data with other nonstandard administrative and political data for specialized applications. It addresses a generic problem that arises under various circumstances where district boundaries must match existing voting precincts; where current and historical census geographies must be aligned; where Census PUMS data are used to approximate specific populations; etc. These case studies present concrete illustrations of such issues and practical ways to resolve them, which can adapted to particular situations at hand.
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Strictly speaking, such inconsistencies are not logically impossible. Recall the lifelong Chicago resident’s final request: “Bury me in Cook County so I can stay active in politics.”
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We adopt this assumed 50–50 split based upon data shown in DaVanzo and Morrison (1981), Table 2.
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DaVanzo, J., and Morrison, P. 1981. Migration sequences: Who moves back and who moves on? R-2548-NICHD. Santa Monica, CA: RAND. https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2548.html
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Morrison, P.A., Bryan, T.M. (2019). Integrating Administrative, Political, and Census Geography. In: Redistricting: A Manual for Analysts, Practitioners, and Citizens. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15827-9_11
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