This data set provides common names and abbreviations for U.S. counties to enable merging with various data sets.
Format
A data frame with 3106 observations and 11 variables.
| countystate | |
| proper county name and state name (separated by ':') | state_name |
| proper state name | county_name |
| proper county name | state_abbv |
| abbreviated state name | state_name_cap |
| capitalized state name | state_name_cap_nominate |
| capitalized state name, shortened (as in DW-NOMINATE data) | state_fips |
| state FIPS | county_fips |
| county FIPS | fullgeoid |
| Twelve-digit GEOID identifier for each county observation (as a character string) | neighbors_fullgeoid |
| character string of neighboring counties' fullgeoid's (separated by ',') for each county observation | neighbors_countystate |
| character string of neighboring counties' countystate names (separated by ',') for each county observation |