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Geographical Referencing Learning Resources | Researcher | Researcher C, LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Discipline | Health, social statistics, economics, political science, social science |
| Outputs | Shaded area mapping of health, economic, social and demographic data from 1980 to 2003 for US states | Study area | US |
| Geographical units | US states |
| Time period | 1980-2003 |
| Reference datasets | US Statistical Abstract; US state boundaries |
| Summary | |
| Main tasks | Researcher C wanted to map and investigate health and pharmaceutical expenditure and their determinants within the 50 US states for the period 1980 to 2003. Most of her data came from the US Statistical Abstract. US state and state equivalent area boundaries are available for download free of charge from the US Census Bureau website. Researcher C was able to download boundaries for 1990 and 2000 in ArcView shapefile format. She then imported these, together with her attribute data, into ArcGIS which was the GIS/mapping software available at her university. State codes were used to link the attribute data to the corresponding area boundaries. The GIS software offers many options for controlling the shading and appearance of the various maps. |
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| References | US Census Bureau Geography [http://www.census.gov/geo/www/] |
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