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Readme for FCCCNTY2K.txt


FCCCNTY2k.txt is formatted as an ASCII, comma separated value file.

The field definitions are:

FIPS - 5 character (2 character state and 3 character county/county equivalent) Federal Information Processing System Codes. Codes used in this field include FIPS used for Census 2000;

There are a total of 3234 codes used in this file.
 
(3141 codes) United States including the District of Columbia 
(5 codes)    American Samoa
(1 code)     Guam
(4 codes)    Northern Mariana Islands
(78 codes)   Puerto Rico
(3 codes)    Virgin Islands of the United States
(2 codes)    Gulf of Mexico - the two codes  99001 and 99023 are NOT OFFICIAL FIPS codes.  They are codes
             created and used by the FCC, to identify certain areas of the Gulf of Mexico that are licensed for various
             FCC regulated telecommunications services.  


COUNTY - County Name
STATE  - State Name
2KPOPULATION - Census 2000 population
RPC - Regional PCS  Area
MTA - Major Trading Area (see note)
BTA - Basic Trading Area (see note)
REA - Regional Economic Area
EAG_220 - Economic Area Grouping 220MHz
EAG_700 - Economic Area Grouping 700MHz
MEA - Major Economic Area
EA - Economic Area
PSR - Public Safety Planning Region
CMA - Cellular Market Area
VPC - VHF Public Coast Station Area
CEA - Component Economic Area 


Market number of 0 (zero) indicates market area scheme does not include that county.


2000 U.S.Census data obtained from the United States Census Bureau.  Data taken from Summary File 1.  
http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html

Note: Basic Trading Areas(BTAs) and Major Trading Areas(MTAs) are based on Material Copyrighted (c)
      1992 Rand McNally & Company