US Census summary level code

ID us_census_sumlev

DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft

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Three-digit code of the summary level (SUMLEV) of a row in US Census Bureau data, the kind of geographic area it describes: 010 nation, 020 region, 030 division, 040 state, 050 county, and others for places, tracts and blocks.

Parent datatype: Category category
Categories: Geographic identifiers, Government related
Countries: United States
Languages: English
Quality: 75/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage
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Regular expression

^\d{3}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
040	State
050	County
40 invalid	Leading zero dropped

Sources

doc: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/technical-documentation/naming-convention/cartographic-boundary-file/carto-boundary-summary-level.html

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