Dataset Metadata Record

Short Description: Shapefile containing the 22 state upper house districts of the Kansas City metropolitian area.

Dataset Name: 2016_KCMa_STATEUPPER

Format: shp

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

Spatial Data Type: Vector

Summary Level: State Legis - Upper

Keywords: Shapefile, State Upper House,

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

Permissions: P1

South: 37.332848

West: -95.775133

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. SLDU stands for State Legislative District Upper 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.