Dataset Metadata Record

Short Description: Shapefile of the lower house districts of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.

Dataset Name: KCMa_2016_STATELOWER

Format: csv

FTP Location/Path: . . .\Unrestricted\1_SpatialLayers\1_Shapefiles\2_SummaryLevels\2_Political\3_StateHouse

Spatial Data Type: Vector

Summary Level: State Legis - Lower

Keywords: State Lower House, Lower Chamber

Provenance: Compiled from census files downloaded from: https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/carto-boundary-file.html

Permissions: P1

South: 37.639722

West: -95.51897

Created by: Neal Wilson

Cataloged By: Neal Wilson

Statisical Abstract / Profile: Coming later

Long Description : The 2016 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files. SLDL stands for State Legislative District Lower Chamber. State Legislative Districts (SLDs) are the areas from which members are elected to state legislatures. The SLDs embody the upper (senate) and lower (house) chambers of the state legislature. Nebraska has a unicameral legislature and the District of Columbia has a single council, both of which the Census Bureau treats as upper-chamber legislative areas for the purpose of data presentation; there are no data by SLDL for either Nebraska or the District of Columbia. A unique three-character census code, identified by state participants, is assigned to each SLD within a state. In Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, and Puerto Rico, the Redistricting Data Program (RDP) participant did not define the SLDs to cover all of the state or state equivalent area. In these areas with no SLDs defined, the code "ZZZ" has been assigned, which is treated as a single SLD for purposes of data presentation. The boundaries of the 2016 state legislative districts were provided by state-level participants through the RDP and reflect the districts used to elect members in or prior to the November 2016 election.