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    • TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2012, econ nation, U.S., Economic Census Metropolitan Statistical Area/Micropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA) National Shapefile

    Metadata Updated: November 10, 2020

    The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.db) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation.

    Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas are together termed Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) and are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and consist of the county or counties or equivalent entities associated with at least one urban core (urbanized area or urban cluster) of at least 10,000 population, plus adjacent counties having a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured through commuting ties with the counties containing the core. Categories of CBSAs are: Metropolitan Statistical Areas, based on urbanized areas of 50,000 or more population; and Micropolitan Statistical Areas, based on urban clusters of at least 10,000 population but less than 50,000 population.

    Economic Census CBSAs are similar to current CBSAs, which are those that the OMB announced and published in February 2013.

    Access & Use Information

    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

    Collection

    This dataset is part of a deleted collection.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date June 1, 2014
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 10, 2020
    Reference Date(s) 2012 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from 2014 Economic Census Metropolitan Statistical Area/Micropolitan Statistical Area

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date June 1, 2014
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 10, 2020
    Reference Date(s) 2012 (publication)
    Responsible Party Unknown
    Contact Email
    Guid tl_2012_us_cbsaec.shp.xml
    Access Constraints Access Constraints: None, Use Constraints:The TIGER/Line Shapefile products are not copyrighted however TIGER/Line and Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. These products are free to use in a product or publication, however acknowledgment must be given to the U.S. Census Bureau as the source. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles are for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes does not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions. Coordinates in the TIGER/Line shapefiles have six implied decimal places, but the positional accuracy of these coordinates is not as great as the six decimal places suggest.
    Bbox East Long 179.859681
    Bbox North Lat 71.441059
    Bbox South Lat -14.601813
    Bbox West Long -179.231086
    Collection Package Id 6ca63253-cf8a-47bb-895e-6ad78db5d192
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned
    Harvest Object Id b7f36fd5-e98b-4bf1-bb85-aa47ae9ca879
    Harvest Source Id 977eb978-ac78-4eab-8d63-a88ae5ba41ee
    Harvest Source Title 2014 Economic Census Metropolitan Statistical Area/Micropolitan Statistical Area
    Licence
    Metadata Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Progress
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 2011-06
    Temporal Extent End 2012-05

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