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Merging Electoral and Census Data to Create MCD-Groups

Many--although far from all--interesting applications of our electoral data require that the researcher merge them with relevant variables from the U.S. Census, such as race, income, education, occupation, journey to work, etc. With such merged data, scholars can characterize the social, economic, and demographic characteristics of local communities at the same time as their voting behavior. One aim of the ROAD Project was to provide such merged files.






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