Computer Use and Compactness in Congressional and Legislative Redistricting 1990-2000 (ICPSR 1317)

Version Date: Nov 28, 2005

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Principal Investigator(s):
Micah Altman, Harvard University; Karin MacDonald, University of California-Berkeley; Michael McDonald, George Mason University

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01317.v1

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Summary

In order to study the use of computers in redistricting, in the fall of 2004 we surveyed redistricting authorities in all fifty states concerning their use of computers in the 1990 and 2000 rounds of redistricting. This dataset supplements our replication dataset for "Crayons to Computers," and adds the following variables:

  • Four variables representing the capabilities of the computer system used: soft_geographic_reports, soft_tabulation, soft_automated_redistricting, and soft_thematic_mapping
  • Two measures of plan compactness: compact_reock, compact_pa
  • One measure of competitiveness: competitiveness
  • Number of districts: number_districts

Citation

Altman, Micah, MacDonald, Karin, and McDonald, Michael. Computer Use and Compactness in Congressional and Legislative Redistricting 1990-2000. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01317.v1

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Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1990 -- 2000

Data Collection Notes

  1. File submitted is altman-macdonald-mcdonald.zip which contain data and a codebook.

  2. These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.

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Original Release Date

2005-11-28

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Altman, Micah, Karin MacDonald, and Michael McDonald. Computer Use and Compactness in Congressional and Legislative Redistricting 1990-2000. ICPSR01317-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-28. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01317.v1
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Notes

  • These data are flagged as replication datasets and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.