RE: st: RE: Generating dummies

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

In case you were wondering (and the total may be > 56)...

60: American Samoa
64: Federated States of Micronesia
66: Guam
68: Marshall Islands
69: Northern Mariana Islands (This might also be what are called the "Trust 
Territories".)
70: Palau (became an independent nation Oct 1, 1994)
72: Puerto Rico
74: U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
78: Virgin Islands of the U.S.

Also, if you know the FIPS values for the "regular" states, you will have 
noticed that there are some holes in the sequence, such as 3 and 7. 
Presumably, these territories were in there, in alphabetic order, but were 
later moved into their present locations.

And there are also FIPS codes for counties, and "places" and other 
geographic entities, and for lots of other things besides geographic entities.

-- David

At 02:24 PM 6/21/2005 -0700, you wrote:

> The more serious answer to this is that statistics by state often include 
> 56 jurisdictions, including Puerto Rico, Guam, the (American, not British) 
> Virgin Islands, the Trust Territories of the Pacific, the District of 
> Columbia (Washington, D.C.), and one more I can't remember off the top of 
> my head.
>
> Perhaps it is Scotland.
>
> Ted Anagnoson
>
>
> At 08:25 PM 6/21/2005 +0100, Nick Cox wrote:
>
> > It is interesting to learn, from a surprising source,
> > that the United States has recently added six more
> > states. Do their people have votes? Do they know about their
> > new status? Or this just a short-hand for Puerto Rico,
> > etc., etc.?
> >
> > Nick
> > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> > [...]
> David Kantor
> Institute for Policy Studies
> Johns Hopkins University
> dkantor@jhu.edu
> 410-516-5404
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