division: Census division (1-9)¶

division title image

Description¶

division is the Census geographic division code (1-9) of the household. See also region.

Availability¶

Sample	Years
Basic	1978 - present
ORG	1979 - present

Values¶

Value	Label
1	New England
2	Middle Atlantic
3	East North Central
4	West North Central
5	South Atlantic
6	East South Central
7	West South Central
8	Mountain
9	Pacific

Code¶

Variable creation

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* division
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* See statefips for coding
lab var division "Census division (1-9)"
notes division: derived from statefips

Figure creation

sum year
keep if year == r(max)
gegen tag = tag(statefips)
keep if tag == 1
keep statefips division

local color1 118 42 131
local color2 153 112 171
local color3 194 165 207
local color4 231 212 232
local color5 247 247 247
local color6 217 240 211
local color7 166 219 160
local color8 90 174 97
local color9 27 120 55

forvalues i = 1 / 9 {
  local divisionname`i': label division `i'
}

maptile division, geo(state) geoid(statefips) ///
cutpoints(division) ///
fcolor(""`color1'" "`color2'" "`color3'" "`color4'" "`color5'" "`color6'" "`color7'" "`color8'" "`color9'"") ///
twopt( ///
  graphregion(color(white)) ///
  plotregion(color(white)) ///
  legend( ///
    size(small) ///
    order(2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) ///
    lab(2 "`divisionname1'") ///
    lab(3 "`divisionname2'") ///
    lab(4 "`divisionname3'") ///
    lab(5 "`divisionname4'") ///
    lab(6 "`divisionname5'") ///
    lab(7 "`divisionname6'") ///
    lab(8 "`divisionname7'") ///
    lab(9 "`divisionname8'") ///
    lab(10 "`divisionname9'") ///
  ) ///
)

graph export ${variableimages}division_titleimage.svg, replace