U.S. Census Bureau

 Small Area Income & Poverty Estimates

 Model-based Estimates for States, Counties, & School Districts

2002 School District Files and Description


The 2002 school district estimate files only contain data - no labels, no table headers, no titles. A description of the contents of the files can be found below or in the file "README" in the file directory.

Access school district data files for 2002


I.    File Organization:


    The files in the data directory contain estimates of population and
    poverty.  The school districts for which we have estimates were 
    identified in the 2003 school district mapping project,
    which asked about all school districts as of January 1, 2004. The 2002 
    estimates reflect poverty in 2002 of the population in 2003 for school 
    district boundaries in the 2003-2004 school year.  There is one 
    file for each of the states, the District of Columbia, and the entire 
    United States.  Each file contains the FIPS state code, Department of 
    Education Common Core of Data (CCD) ID numbers, District names, 
    the total population, population of school-age children, and estimated 
    number of school-age children in poverty related to the head of the household.


II.   File Names


     Two kinds of files are located here:

        1) USSD02.dat           (A large file containing the estimates for
                                 every school district in the Nation)

        2) sd02_[STATE].dat     (Smaller files containing estimates for
                                 every school district in an individual state)

           where [STATE] = standard two-letter postal abbreviations.


III.  Record Layout for Files


      Position   Variable

          1- 2       FIPS State code
          4- 8       CCD District ID
         10-74       District Name
         76-83       Total Population
         85-92       Population of Relevant Children 5 to 17 years of Age
        94-101       Estimated Number of Relevant Children 5 to 17 years old
                     in poverty who are Related to the Householder
       103-123       A tag indicating the file name and date of creation

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Data Integration Division, Small Area Estimates Branch
For assistance, please contact the Demographic Call Center Staff at 301-763-2422 or 1-866-758-1060 (toll free) or visit ask.census.gov for further information.