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Alaska Native Claims (ANC)
Section 450b(e) of title 25 U.S.C. "Indian tribe" means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. 688) (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.

American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut
Includes persons who classified themselves as such in one of the specific race categories identified below.

Aleut
Includes persons who indicated their race as "Aleut" or reported entries such as Alutiiq, Egegik, and Pribilovian

American Indian
Includes persons who indicated their race as "American Indian," entered the name of an Indian tribe, or reported such entries as Canadian Indian, French-American Indian, or Spanish-American Indian.

Eskimo
Includes persons who indicated their race as "Eskimo" or reported entries such as Arctic Slope, Inupiat, and Yupik

American Indian Reservation
American Indian entity with boundaries established by treaty, statute, and/or executive or court order in the US. Federal and individual state governments established reservations as territory over which American Indians have governmental jurisdiction. These entities are designated as colonies, communities, pueblos, rancherias, reservations, and reserves. The Federally recognized reservations, their names, and their boundaries are identified for the US Census Bureau by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), an agency in the U.S. Department of the Interior; state governments identify the names and boundaries of state reservations.

American Indian Trust Land
Land held in trust by the Federal government for either a tribe (tribal trust land) or an individual member of that tribe (individual trust land. Such land always is associated with a specific Federally recognized reservation or tribe, but may be located on or off the reservation. The Census Bureau recognizes and tabulates data separately only for off-reservation trust lands. The BIA identifies and provides maps of these areas for use by the Census Bureau.

ANC
Section 450b(e) of title 25 U.S.C. "Indian tribe" means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. 688) (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.

Area
The size, in square miles, recorded for each geographic entity. Square miles may be multiplied by 2.59 to convert an area measurement to square kilometers. Land Area was calculated by the Census Bureau from the specific set of boundaries recorded for each entity in its geographic data base. ZIP Code area is calculated by Geographic Data Technology, Inc. The reliability of any area measurement figure is limited by the inaccuracy inherent in (1) the location and shape of the various boundary features in the data base, and (2) rounding affecting the last digit in all operations that compute and/or sum the area measurements.

Asian
Refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent. It includes people who indicated their race or races as "Asian Indian", "Chinese", "Filipino", "Korean", "Japanese", "Vietnamese", or "Other Asian", or wrote in entries such as Burmese, Hmong, Pakistani, or Thai.

Average
The number found by dividing the sum of all quantities by the total number of quantities. For example, Aggregate Income divided by Total Households equals Average Household Income.

Average Household Income
The average or mean income is obtained by dividing total household income by the total number of households. Because the average is influenced strongly by extreme values in the distribution, it is especially susceptible to the effects of sampling variability.

Average Household Size
Average household size is calculated by dividing the number of persons in households by the number of households.

Average Income of Households
Includes the income of the householder and all other persons 15 years and over in the household, whether related to the householder or not. Because many households consists of only one person, average household income is usually less than average family income.

AWDT
Average Weekday Daily Traffic. Traffic counts that represent an average weekday of the year but have not been seasonally adjusted.

AWDT Eastbound
Average Weekday Daily Traffic Eastbound. Traffic counts that represent an average weekday of the year for Eastbound travel but have not been seasonally adjusted.

AWDT Norhtbound
Average Weekday Daily Traffic Northbound. Traffic counts that represent an average weekday of the year for Northbound travel but have not been seasonally adjusted.

AWDT One-Way
Average Weekday Daily Traffic One-Way. Traffic counts that represent an average weekday of the year for traveling on a one-way road but have not been seasonally adjusted.

AWDT Southbound
Average Weekday Daily Traffic Southbound. Traffic counts that represent an average weekday of the year for Southbound travel but have not been seasonally adjusted.

AWDT Westbound
Average Weekday Daily Traffic Westbound. Traffic counts that represent an average weekday of the year for Westbound travel but have not been seasonally adjusted.

AWET
Average Weekend Traffic. Counts taken on the weekend only, representing weekend traffic Friday-Sunday.

Black or African American
Refers to people having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicated their race or races as "Black, African Am., or Negro", or wrote in entries such as African American, Afro American, Nigerian, or Haitian.

Block Group
(See Census Block Group)

Cash Contributions
The grantee's cash outlay, including the outlay of money contributed to the grantee or subgrantee by other public agencies and institutions, and private organizations and individuals. Includes items such as payments for support of college students, alimony and child support, and giving to charities and religious organizations.

CBSA
(See Core-Based Statistical Area.)

CCD
(See Census County Division.)

Census Block
The smallest geographical area, bounded by visible boundaries, for which census data are collected. Census blocks make up census block groups that make up census tracts.

Census Block Group
Subdivisions of census tracts, each generally contain between 600 and 3000 people, with an optimum size of 1,500 people.

Census County Division (CCD)
Census county divisions are county subdivisions that were delineated by the U.S. Census Bureau, in cooperation with state and local officials for purposes of presenting statistical data. CCDs have been established in 21 states where there are no legally established minor civil divisions (MCDs), where the MCDs do not have governmental or administrative purposes, where the boundaries of the MCDs change frequently, and/or where the MCDs generally are not known to the public. CCDs have no legal functions and are not governmental units.

Census Tract
A small, permanent subdivision of a county with homogeneous population characteristics, status and living conditions.

Centroid
The center of a map object.

Certified Small Business
Indicates whether the business is small and one which has been certified by a federal, state or local government agency or organization as having met all of the government standards that award eligibility.

Child
A son or a daughter by birth, an adopted child, or a stepchild, regardless of the child's age or marital status.

Children
The term "children", as used in tables on living arrangements of children under 18, are all persons under 18 years, excluding people who maintain households, families or sub-families as a reference person or spouse.

Own Children
in a family are sons and daughters, including stepchildren and adopted children, of the householder.

Related Children
in a family include own children and all other children under 18 years old in the household who are related to the householder by birth, marriage, or adoption.

Citizen
People who indicate that they were born in the United States, Puerto Rico, a U.S. Island Area, or abroad of a U.S. citizen parent(s) are citizens. People who indicate that they are U.S. citizens through naturalization are also citizens. Naturalized citizens are foreign-born people who identify themselves as naturalized. (Naturalization is the conferring, by any means, of citizenship upon a person after birth.)

Citizenship status
There are five categories of citizenship status: 1) Born in the United States; 2) Born in Puerto Rico or another outlying area of the U.S.; 3) Born abroad of U.S. citizen parents; 4) Naturalized citizens; 5) Non-citizens.

Not a citizen
People who indicate they are not U.S. citizens.

City
Type of incorporated place in 49 states and the District of Columbia. In 23 states and the District of Columbia, some or all cities are not part of any Minor Civil Division (MCD), and the Census Bureau also treats these as county subdivisions, statistically equivalent to MCDs.

Class of worker
All people over the age of 15 who have been employed at any time are asked to designate the type of work normally done or the work performed most regularly. Occupations and types of work are then broken down into the following classes.

Government Workers
Includes people who are employees of any local, state, or federal governmental unit, regardless of the activity of the particular agency. For some tabulations, the data are presented separately for the three levels of government. Employees of foreign governments, the United Nations, or other formal international organizations controlled by governments should be classified as "Federal Government employee."

Private Wage and Salary Workers
Includes people who worked for wages, salary, commission, tips, pay-in-kind, or piece rates for a private-for-profit employer or a private-not-for-profit, tax-exempt, or charitable organization. Self-employed people whose business was incorporated are included with private wage and salary workers because they are paid employees of their own companies. Some tabulations present data separately for these subcategories: "For profit," "Not-for-profit," and "Own business incorporated."

Salaried/Self-Employed
In tabulations that categorize persons as either salaried or self-employed, the salaried category includes private and government wage and salary workers; self-employed includes self-employed people and unpaid family workers.

Self-Employed Workers
Includes people who worked for profit or fees in their own unincorporated business, profession, or trade, or who operated a farm.

Unpaid Family Workers
Includes people who worked 15 hours or more without pay in a business or on a farm operated by a relative.

CMSA
(See Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area.)

Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA)
Geographic entity defined by the Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for use by Federal statistical agencies in the US. An area becomes a CMSA if it meets the requirements to qualify as a metropolitan statistical area (MSA), has a population of 1,000,000 or more, if component parts are recognized as primary metropolitan statistical areas (PMSAs), and local opinion favors the designation. Whole counties are components of CMSAs outside of New England, where they are composed of cities and towns instead.

Converted Approach Count
Approach counts (counts on each directional leg of an intersection going into an intersection) or turning movement counts (each lane at an intersection including the direction the cars are turning) factored to an average daily number.

Coordinate
A set of numbers that designate location in a given reference system, such as x,y in a planar coordinate system or an x,y,z in a three dimensional coordinate system. Coordinates represent locations on the Earth's surface relative to other locations.

Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA)
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reviewed the Metropolitan Area standards in 1999 and 2000. The new standards replace the current metropolitan area classification with a Core-Based Statistical Area (CBSA) classification. The new Core-Based Statistical Area (CBSA) consists of a county containing an Incorporated Place or Census Designated Place with a population of at least 10,000 along any adjacent counties that have at least 25% of employed residents of the county who work in the CBSAs core or central county. CBSAs are categorized as being either Metropolitan (core population of at least 50,000) or Micropolitan (core population between 10,000 and 50,000). This allows common statistics to be collected for less urban areas of the nation. These two county-based CBSA definitions will cover approximately 90% of the U.S. population.

Corporation
A Corporation is the most common form of business organization, is created under the laws of a state as a separate legal entity that has privileges and liabilities that are distinct from those of its owners. This form of business is primarily characterized by the limited liability of its owners, the issuance of shares of easily transferable stock, and existence as a going concern.

County
The primary political administrative subdivision of a state, the county is widely used for marketing purposes for the following reasons: 1) The range and reliability of currently available data below the state level is greatest at the county level. 2) County geographic boundaries are rarely altered. 3) Complete national coverage is achieved by summarizing all counties. 4) County boundaries are readily identifiable. For Louisiana, parishes are used in lieu of counties; for Alaska, boroughs and census areas. The District of Columbia is treated as a single county unit. In Virginia, all cities are by law independent of counties; therefore they are treated as county units. The cities of Baltimore, MD, St. Louis, MO and Carson City, NV are also independent and therefore classified as counties.

Custom Radius
A specific street address or intersection with data aggregated for 1 or multiple radii from it or bands around it.

DBE
(See Disadvantage Business Enterprise.)

Density
Population divided by the county's square miles of land area. A simple basis for relating population to a county's size. Thus, two counties with the same population can have sharply divergent densities because of difference in land area. The figure may suffer because the land area will include railroad freight yards, wildlife preserves, industrial parks and other nonresidential areas, resulting in a misleading density level.

Designated Market Area (DMA)
The formal term for what is more commonly known as a TV or broadcast market. Definitions for DMA's are supplied by Nielsen Media Research that generates ratings for broadcast programming. DMA's are selected by totaling the viewer hours of TV stations whose signals reach a particular county with total hours, then converted to a percentage share of all viewing hours. DMA's are named for the market of origin of the station(s) with the largest share of viewer hours, and all counties whose largest viewer share is given to stations in that same market of origin are grouped together under that DMA. NOTE: Because of the reach of broadcast signals, DMA's don't always conform to whole-county geography like metro markets or newspaper markets. In certain cases, Nielsen splits counties, treating each portion as if it were a separate county. Each county, or portion thereof, is allocated to a single DMA, eliminating any geographic overlap. DMA's cover the whole U.S., except for parts of Alaska.

Disabled Business Enterprise (DIS)
At least 51% owned and controlled by a handicapped individual or service-disabled individual. A handicapped individual is a person with a physical, mental or emotional impairment, defect, ailment, disease or disability of a permanent nature, which any way limits the selection of any type of employment for which the individual(s) would otherwise be qualified or qualifiable.

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVET)
At least 51% owned and controlled by one or more Disabled Veterans. The home office must be located in the United States and the home office cannot be a branch or subsidiary of a non-US corporation, firm or other non-US based business. The individual(s) must be a veteran of US military services and has a service-connected disability of at least 10% or more.

Disadvantage Business Enterprise (DBE)
As defined by the US Department of Transportation. At least 51% owned and controlled by individual(s) who are socially and economically disadvantaged as defined by the DBE Regulation 49 CFR Parts 23 and 26. All eligible owners must certify they are members of a disadvantaged group (eligible ethnic group and/or female). Additionally, the owner(s) assets cannot exceed $750,000, excluding the assets of the business seeking the DBE certification and the owner(s) primary residence.

DMA
(See Designated Market Area.)

DVET
(See Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise.)

Earnings
Earnings is defined as the algebraic sum of wage or salary income and net income from self-employment. Earnings represent the amount of income received regularly before deductions for personal income taxes, Social Security, bond purchases, union dues, Medicare deductions, etc.

Educational attainment (25+)
Refers to the highest level of education completed in terms of the highest degree or the highest level of schooling completed. This includes designations such as Less than Grade 9, Grade 9-12, High School Graduate, Some College-No Degree, Associate Degree, Bachelor's Degree, and Graduate Degree.

Employed
Employed includes all civilians 16 years old and over who were either (1) "at work" -those who did any work at all during the reference week as paid employees, worked in their own business or profession, worked on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers on a family farm or in a family business; or (2) were "with a job but not at work" -those who did not work during the reference week but had jobs or businesses from which they were temporarily absent due to illness, bad weather, industrial dispute, vacation, or other personal reasons. Excluded from the employed are people whose only activity consisted of work around the house or unpaid volunteer work for religious, charitable, and similar organizations; also excluded are people on active duty in the United States Armed Forces. The reference week is the calendar week preceding the date on which the respondents completed their questionnaires or were interviewed. This week may not be the same for all respondents.

Estimated Counts
Traffic counts updated by a source entity from an older year to a more current year based solely on historical data or local expertise.

Ethnicity
In general, the Census Bureau defines ethnicity or origin as the heritage, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth of the person or the person 's parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States. People who identify their origin as Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino may be of any race. According to the revised Office of Management and Budget standards, race is considered a separate concept from Hispanic origin (ethnicity) and, wherever possible, separate questions should be asked on each concept.

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Code
FIPS codes are assigned for a variety of geographic entities, including American Indian and Alaska Native area, congressional district, county, county subdivision, metropolitan area, place, and state. The objective of the FIPS code is to improve the use of data and avoid unnecessary duplication and incompatibilities in the collection, processing, and dissemination of data.

Foreign Born

Foreign-born population
People who are not U.S. citizens at birth.

Native population
People born in either the United States, Puerto Rico, or a U.S. Island Area such as Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands, or people born in a foreign country to a U.S. citizen parent(s).

Friendly Society
sometimes called a mutual society, benevolent society, fraternal organization or ROSCA is a mutual association for the purposes of insurance, pensions, savings or cooperative banking. It is a mutual organization or benefit society composed of a body of people who join together for a common financial or social purpose.

Gender
Male and Female population totals.

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT)
A business that is at least 51% owned by a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender entrepreneur, and certified by the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

General Partnership
the basic form of partnership under common law, refers to an association of persons or an unincorporated company with the following major features: 1)Created by agreement, proof of existence and estoppel; 2) Formed by two or more persons; 3)The owners are all personally liable for any legal actions and debts the company may face. It is a partnership in which partners share equally in both responsibility and liability.

Geocoding
Geocoding is the process of assigning to a street address a latitude and longitude coordinate and/or geographic codes that associate an address to census geography-such as a block group, census tract, or county.

GIS
Geographic Information System. A computer software system with which spatial information may be captured, stored, analyzed, displayed and retrieved.

GOV
Government Entity: Public sector entities and organizations.

Green Certified
A business that is certified by a agency as having met all of their standard that award eligibility within one of the following categories, process, product, building, design, energy, food, community and tourism.

Group quarters (GQ)
The Census Bureau classifies all people not living in households as living in group quarters. There are two types of group quarters: institutional (for example, correctional facilities, nursing homes, and mental hospitals) and non-institutional (for example, college dormitories, military barracks, group homes, missions, and shelters).

Group quarters population
Those people residing in group quarters as of the date on which a particular survey was conducted. The Census Bureau recognizes two general categories of people in group quarters:

Institutionalized population
The institutionalized population includes people under formally authorized supervised care or custody in institutions at the time of enumeration. Such people are classified as "patients or inmates" of an institution regardless of the availability of nursing or medical care, the length of stay, or the number of people in the institution. Generally, the institutionalized population is restricted to the institutional buildings and grounds (or must have passes or escorts to leave) and thus have limited interaction with the surrounding community. Also, they are generally under the care of trained staff who have responsibility for their safekeeping and supervision.

Non-institutionalized population
The non-institutionalized population includes all people who live in group quarters other than institutions. Some examples of these types of group quarters may be college dormitories, rooming houses, religious group homes, communes, and halfway houses.

HBCU
(See Historically Black University or College.)

Hispanic Origin
The OMB defines Hispanic or Latino as "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race." In data collection and presentation, federal agencies are required to use a minimum of two ethnicities: "Hispanic or Latino" and "Not Hispanic or Latino." For Census 2000, the questions on race and Hispanic origin were asked of every individual living in the United States. The question on Hispanic origin asked respondents if they were Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino based on self-identification.

Historically Black University or College (HBCU)
Postsecondary academic institutions founded before 1964 whose educational mission has been historically the education of Black Americans.

Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone)
As defined by the US SBA HUBZone Empowerment Program. Qualifying businesses must meet small business size criteria and must be located in distressed areas.

Household
A household consists of all the people occupying a single housing unit under the 2000 Census rules. A housing unit is defined as a house, apartment, mobile home, group of rooms, or a single room that is occupied. In addition, the members of a household need not be related, and a single person living alone in a housing unit is also considered a household.

Family household (Family)
A family includes a householder and one or more people living in the same household who are related to the householder by birth, marriage, or adoption. All people in a household who are related to the householder are regarded as members of his or her family. A family household may contain people not related to the householder, but those people are not included as part of the householder's family in census tabulations. Thus, the number of family households is equal to the number of families, but family households may include more members than do families. A household can contain only one family for purposes of census tabulations. Not all households contain families since a household may comprise a group of unrelated people or one person living alone.

Non-family household
a household containing a group of unrelated people or one person living alone. Persons who are not counted as members of households comprise those living in group quarters such as college dormitories, military barracks, rooming houses, long-term-care hospitals, nursing homes, and prisons.

Household Population
Total Household Population is a head count estimate of all people living in a given geographic area as of January 1, 1997 minus people living in group quarters, such as colleges, hospitals, institutions, and nursing homes, as well as armed forces personnel permanently assigned to the area.

Household size
The total number of people living in a housing unit.

Household type and relationship
Households are classified by type according to the sex of the householder and the presence of relatives. Examples include: married-couple family; male householder, no wife present; female householder, no husband present; spouse (husband/wife); child; and other relatives.

Householder
The person, or one of the people, in whose name the home is owned, being bought, or rented. If there is no such person present, any household member 15 years old and over can serve as the householder for the purposes of the census. Two types of householders are distinguished: a family householder and a non-family householder. A family householder is a householder living with one or more people related to him or her by birth, marriage, or adoption. The householder and all people in the household related to him are family members. A non-family householder is a householder living alone or with non-relatives only.

Housing unit
A house, an apartment, a mobile home or trailer, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied as separate living quarters, or if vacant, intended for occupancy as separate living quarters. Separate living quarters are those in which the occupants live separately from any other individuals in the building and which have direct access from outside the building or through a common hall. For vacant units, the criteria of separateness and direct access are applied to the intended occupants whenever possible.

HUBZone
(See Historically Underutilized Business Zone.)

Income
Income is the aggregate of wages and salaries, net farm and nonfarm self-employment income, interest, dividends, net rental and royalty income, Social Security and railroad retirement income, other retirement and disability income, public assistance income, unemployment compensation, Veterans Administration payments, alimony and child support, military family allotments, net winnings from gambling, and other periodic income. Receipts from the following sources are not included as money income: money received from the sale of property (unless the recipient is engaged in the business of selling property); the value of income 'in kind' from food stamps, public housing subsidies, medical care, employer contributions for persons, etc.; withdrawal of bank deposits; money borrowed; tax refunds; exchange of money between relatives living in the same household; gifts and lump-sum inheritances, insurance payments, and other types of lump-sum receipts.

Income of Households
Includes the income of the householder and all other persons 15 years old and over in the household, whether related to the householder or not. Because many households consist of only one person, average household income is usually less than average family income.

Index
An index is a method comparing the value of a demographic variable for a selected geography to a base geography. The mathematical equation is; the value of a selected demographic variable divided by the geography base multiplied by 100. It is important to note some variables aren't indexable; for example, Population. Indexable variables are calculated variables Averages, Medians and Percents.

Industry (population data)
Information on industry relates to the kind of business conducted by a person's employing organization. For employed people the data refer to the person's job during the reference week. For those who worked at two or more jobs, the data refer to the job at which the person worked the greatest number of hours. Some examples of industrial groups shown in products include agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction; manufacturing; wholesale or retail trade; transportation and communication; personal, professional and entertainment services; and public administration.

Labor Surplus Jurisdiction
Labor Surplus generally defined for a Civil Jurisdiction rather than the entire MSA where the average unemployment number is 20% higher than the average U.S. unemployment rate in the last two calendar years.

Latitude
Used to describe the North-South position of a point as measured usually in degrees or decimal degrees above or below the equator. Latitude lines are the horizontal lines on a map that increase form 0 degrees at the Equator to 90 degrees at both the North (+90.0 degrees) and South (-90.0 degrees) poles.

Layer
Basic element of a map. A map typically consists of several superimposed layers. Each map layer refers to one specific table of information.

Legend
The reference area on a map that lists and explains the colors, symbols, line patterns, shadings, and annotations used on the map. The legend often includes the scale, origin, orientation, and other map information.

Limited Liability Company (LLC)
A Limited Liability Company (LLC) is a flexible form of enterprise, authorized by state statute, that blends the tax flexibility of a partnership with the personal liability protection of a corporation. LLCs do not need to be organized for profit. Owners of an LLC are called members. Since most states do not restrict ownership, members may include individuals, corporations, other LLCs and foreign entities. There is no maximum number of members. Most states also permit "single member" LLCs, those having only one owner. A few types of businesses generally cannot be LLCs, such as banks and insurance companies.

Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)
A Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) is a partnership in which some or all partners (depending on the jurisdiction) have limited liability. It therefore exhibits elements of partnerships and corporations. In an LLP one partner is not responsible or liable for another partner's misconduct or negligence. This is an important difference from that of an unlimited partnership. In an LLP, some partners have a form of limited liability similar to that of the shareholders of a corporation. Although an LLP can be used in many fields, it is most commonly used in law or accounting firms.

Limited Partnership
A Limited Partnership is a form of partnership similar to a general partnership, except that in addition to one or more general partners (GPs), there are one or more limited partners (LPs), who are normally only liable to the extent of their investments. It is a partnership in which only one partner is required to be a general partner.

Longitude
Used to describe the East-West position of a point. The position is reported as the number of degrees east (to -180.0 degrees) or west (to +180.0 degrees) of the prime meridian (0 degrees). Represented by vertical lines running from the North to South poles. Lines of longitude are farthest apart at the Equator and intersect at both poles, and therefore, are not parallel.

Marital Status
Adults are generally classified by marital status as being married, never married, separated, divorced or widowed.

Master Limited Partnership
A limited partnership that is publicly traded on a securities exchange. It combines the tax benefits of a limited partnership with the liquidity of publicly traded securities.

MBE
(See Minority Owned Busienss Enterprise.)

MCD
(See Minor Civil Division.)

Media Market
(See Designated Market Area.)

Median
A calculated value that divides the distribution in an area into two equal parts. One half falls above the value and one half falls below. For example, if the median age is 21, half the population is younger than 21 and the other half is older than 21.

Median Age
This measure divides the age distribution into two equal parts: one half of the cases falling below the median value and one-half above the value.

Median Income
The median represents the middle of the income, dividing the income distribution into two equal parts, one having income above the median and the other having income below the median.

Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
A geographic area with a significant population nucleus, along with any adjacent communities that have a high degree of economic and social integration with that nucleus.

Minor Civil Division (MCD)
The primary governmental or administrative divisions of a county or county equivalent in many states. MCDs represent many different kinds of legal entities with a wide variety of governmental and/or administrative functions. MCDs are variously designated as American Indian reservations, assessment districts, boroughs, charter townships, election districts, election precincts, gores, grants, locations, magisterial districts, parish governing authority districts, plantations, precincts, purchases, road districts, supervisor's districts, towns, and townships.

Minority Owned Busienss Enterprise (MBE)
: At least 51% owned and controlled by individuals belonging to one or more of the following US Federal Government identified ethnic groups: Asian, African-American, Hispanic, Asian-Indian, Asian-Pacific, Native American, Alaska Native.

Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE)
At least 51% owned by and controlled by individuals belonging to certain ethnic minority groups and/or are female in gender. This category is used when the data source does not specify the gender/minority classification, only that the business is one or the other.

MPSI Estimate
Traffic counts estimated by MPSI.

MSA
(See Metropolitan Statistical Area.)

M/WBE
(See Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprise.)

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
Refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. It includes people who indicated their race or races as "Native Hawaiian," "Guamanian or Chamorro," "Samoan," or "Other Pacific Islander," or wrote in entries such as Tahitian, Mariana Islander, or Chuukese.

New England County Metropolitan Area (NECMA)
The U.S. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), a division of the government's Office of Management and Budget, designates these alternative areas, composed of whole counties, in the six New England states for use with data not available below the county level. A NECMA includes, in addition to the county containing the principal central city of an MSA, any other county with at least half its population in that MSA.

Occupation
Occupation describes the kind of work the person does on the job. For employed people, the data refer to the person's job during the reference week. For those who worked at two or more jobs, the data refer to the job at which the person worked the greatest number of hours. Some examples of occupational groups shown in this product include managerial occupations; business and financial specialists; scientists and technicians; entertainment; healthcare; food service; personal services; sales; office and administrative support; farming; maintenance and repair; and production workers.

Occupied Housing Unit
A housing unit is classified as occupied if it is the usual place of residence of the person or group of people living in it at the time of enumeration.

Old Study
Counts that pre-date the creation of the TrafficMetrix database. Most of these are likely AADT or ADT but no information is available to support any firm assignment.

Other Race
Includes all other persons not included in the White, Black, American Indian, Eskimo or Aleut and Asian or Pacific Islander race categories. Persons reporting in the "Other Race" category and providing write-in entries such as multiracial, multiethnic, mixed, interracial, Wesort, or a Spanish/Hispanic origin group (such as Mexican, Cuban, or Puerto Rican) are included here.

Out of Business
A firm is flagged as "Suspected Out of Business" when one or more conditions suggest that the business is no longer operating. Most small business failures do not result in a consumer or commercial bankruptcy so there is no definitive legal filing to indicate the date of the business failure. In lieu of a bankruptcy filing we monitor various operating conditions and note anomalies such as undeliverable address, a disconnected telephone number, business license expirations and others. Such events have historically proven to correlate highly with firms going out of business. Our research has shown that in most cases that firms reported as suspected out of business are no longer operating, however approximately 10-15% of the time these firms are in fact active, therefore you should remember that there is a possibility that the firm is still operating. The earliest out-of-business records in the database go back to 1975.

Owner-occupied housing unit
A housing unit is owner occupied if the owner or co-owner lives in the unit even if it is mortgaged or not fully paid for.

Pacific Islander
Includes persons who indicated their race as "Pacific Islander" or reported entries such as: Hawaiian, Samoan, Guamanian, Other Pacific Islander.

Partnership
Partnership is the relationship existing between two or more persons who join to carry on a trade or business. Each person contributes money, property, labor or skill, and expects to share in the profits and losses of the business.

Partnership (Type Unknown)
Known partnership, type unknown.

Peak Hour
Traffic counts taken for one hour at one or more peak traffic periods in a 24-hour period.

Peak Hour Eastbound
Traffic counts taken for one hour at one or more peak traffic periods in a 24-hour period for traffic traveling Eastbound.

Peak Hour Northbound
Traffic counts taken for one hour at one or more peak traffic periods in a 24-hour period for traffic traveling Northbound.

Peak Hour Southbound
Traffic counts taken for one hour at one or more peak traffic periods in a 24-hour period for traffic traveling Southbound.

Peak Hour Westbound
Traffic counts taken for one hour at one or more peak traffic periods in a 24-hour period for traffic traveling Westbound.

Per Capita Income
Average obtained by dividing Total Income by Total Population.

Percent Change in Population
The percent change between April 1, 2000 (Census) and the current year's estimate or the percent change between the current's year's estimate and the projected five year estimate.

Place
A concentration of population either legally bounded as an incorporated place, or identified as a Census Designated Place (CDP). Incorporated places have legal descriptions of borough (except in Alaska and New York), city, town (except in New England, New York, and Wisconsin), or village. The Bureau of the Census defines a place as a concentration of population; a place may or may not have legally prescribed limits, powers, or functions. This concentration of population must have a name, be locally recognized, and not be part of any other place.

Population
Updated from the 2000 Census of Population and Housing, total Population is a head count estimate of all people living in a given geographic area. It includes people living in group quarters, such as colleges, hospitals, institutions, and nursing homes, as well as armed forces personnel permanently assigned to the area.

Population By Age and Sex
Male and female population totals for 11 age groups are useful for marketers who seek to aim their products or services at specific sales targets. For example, the 12to 17-year-old population is a favorite target of those marketing soft drinks and compact disks. Several of the age groups are also associated with lifestyle stages such as the preschoolers (0-5 years), teenagers (12-17 years), and young adults (18-24 years), which are critical to the formulation of marketing strategies.

Population Per Square Mile
(See Density)

Poverty
Following the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) Directive 14, the Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to detect who is poor. If the total income for a family or unrelated individual falls below the relevant poverty threshold, then the family or unrelated individual is classified as being "below the poverty level."

Proprietorship
Proprietorship is a business structure in which an individual and his/her company are considered a single entity for tax and liability purposes.

Proprietorship (Type Unknown)
Known proprietorship, type unknown.

Race
Race is a self-identification data item in which respondents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify. People who felt they fell into none of those categories could choose the "other" option, or they could indicate a combination of more than one race. These categories differ from 1990 principally because Asian has become a separate category and because multiple races was not an option 10 years ago. Note that The Census Bureau considers "Hispanic" an ethnicity, not a race. Anyone who selected a race on their 2000 Census forms also reported whether they were Hispanic or non-Hispanic. The racial categories of the 2000 census (before modification) are provided below:

American Indian and Alaska Native

Asian

Black or African American

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander

Some Other Race Alone

Two or More Races

White

Ratio
This is a measure of the relative size of one number to a second number expressed as the quotient of the first number divided by the second.

Region
An enclosed area defined by one or more polygons. If a region contains one or more lakes or islands, each lake or island is a separate polygon.

Renter-occupied housing unit
All occupied units which are not owner occupied, whether they are rented for cash rent or occupied without payment of cash rent, are classified as renter-occupied.

Rural
Territory, population and housing units not classified as urban. "Rural" classification cuts across other hierarchies and can be in metropolitan or non-metropolitan areas.

SADT
Summer Average Daily Traffic. Traffic counts deliberately taken during a summer's peak volume but are not seasonally adjusted.

SBA 8(a)
(See Small Business Administration 8a Program.)

SBE
(See Small Business Enterprise.)

School enrollment
Enrollment of individuatls age 3 years and older in regular school, either public or private, which includes nursery school, kindergarten, elementary school, and schooling which leads to a high school diploma or college degree.

SDB
(See Small Disadvantaged Business.)

SDV
(See Service Disabled Veteran.)

Secondary Individuals
Secondary individuals are people of any age who reside in a household, but are not related to the householder (except unrelated subfamily members). People who reside in group quarters are also secondary individuals. Examples of a secondary individual include (1) a guest, partner, roommate, or resident employee; (2) a foster child; or (3) a person residing in a rooming house, a halfway house, staff quarters at a hospital, or other type of group quarters. Secondary individuals are people of any age who reside in a household, but are not related to the householder (except unrelated subfamily members). People who reside in group quarters are also secondary individuals. Examples of a secondary individual include (1) a guest, partner, roommate, or resident employee; (2) a foster child; or (3) a person residing in a rooming house, a halfway house, staff quarters at a hospital, or other type of group quarters.

Service Disabled Veteran (SDV)
A business that a veteran with a disability that is service connected. The term "service connected" means, with respect to disability or death, that such disability was incurred or aggravated, in the line of duty in the active military, naval or air service. (38 U.S.C. 101(16))

Sex
An individual's gender classification male or female.

Small Business
A business concern eligible for assistance from SBA as a small business is one that is organized for profit, with a place of business located in the United States. It must operate primarily within the United States or make a significant contribution to the U.S. economy through payment of taxes or use of American products, materials or labor. Together with its affiliates, it must meet the numerical size standards as defined in the Small Business Size Regulations 13 CFR 121.

Small Business Administration 8a Program (SBA 8(a))
A business assistance program for small disadvantaged businesses. The 8(a) Program offers a broad scope of assistance to firms that are owned and controlled at least 51% by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Helps socially and economically disadvantaged entrepreneurs gain access to the economic mainstream of American society. Participation in the program is divided into two phases over nine years: a four-year developmental stage and a five-year transition stage.

Small Business Enterprise (SBE)
Businesses smaller than a specified size (within industry) as measured by its employee size and/or revenue. These criteria are defined in the US SBA Regulations, 13 CFR Part 121.

Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)
A business 51% or more owned and controlled by one or more disadvantaged persons. The disadvantaged person or persons must be socially disadvantaged and economically disadvantaged. Businesses smaller than a specified size (within industry) as measured by its employee size and/or revenue. These criteria are defined in the US SBA Regulations, 13 CFR Part 121.

Some Other Race
Was included in Census 2000 for respondents who were unable to identify with the five Office of Management and Budget race categories. Respondents who provided write-in entries such as Moroccan, South African, Belizean, or a Hispanic origin (for example, Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Cuban) are included in the Some other race category.

Source
The company which created the data.

Spanish/Hispanic/Latino
A self-designated classification for people whose origins are from Spain, the Spanish-speaking countries of Central or South America, the Caribbean, or those identifying themselves generally as Spanish, Spanish-American, etc. Origin can be viewed as ancestry, nationality, or country of birth of the person or person's parents or ancestors prior to their arrival in the United States. Note: Spanish/Hispanic/Latino people may be of any race.

Spouse
A person legally married to another person.

State (and equivalent entity)
The primary legal subdivision of the United States. The District of Columbia (Washington, DC) is treated as the statistical equivalent of a state for census purposes.

State Code
A two-digit FIPS code assigned by the NIST to identify each State and statistically equivalent entity. The NIST assigns the codes based on the alphabetic sequence of State names (Puerto Rico and the Outlying Areas appear at the end); it documents these codes in a FIPS publication (FIPS PUB 5). Also, a two-digit code assigned by the Census Bureau to identify each State within its census geographic division (Puerto Rico and the Outlying Areas appear at the end).

Television Market
Designated Market Area. Designated Market Area (DMA).

Thematic Map
A map that reveals the geographic patterns in statistical data.

Total Income
The algebraic sum of the amounts reported separately for wage or salary income; net nonfarm self-employment income; net farm self-employment income; interest, dividend, or net rental or royalty income; Social Security or railroad retirement income, public assistance or welfare income; retirement or disability income; and all other income. (See Income)

Traffic Count Thematic Ranges
The traffic counts layer on the MAPS tab, has three different theme cutoffs:
The yellow dots are considered to be low traffic points (Below 7,000)
The light-brown dots are considered to be low-medium traffic points (7,000 - 13,999)
The orange dots are considered to be medium traffic points (14,000 - 20,999)
The dark-brown dots are considered to be medium-heavy traffic points (21,000 - 27,999)
The red dots are considered to be heavy traffic points (Above 28,000)

Two or More Races
The two or more races category represents all those respondents who reported more than one race. This included 57 possible combinations of the six race categories defined under "Race". The decision to use the instruction "mark one or more races" was reached by the Office of Management and Budget in 1997 after noting evidence of increasing numbers of children from interracial unions and the need to measure the increased diversity in the United States. Prior to this decision, most efforts to collect data on race (including those by the Census Bureau) asked people to report one race.

Unemployed
All civilians 16 years old and over are classified as unemployed if they (1) were neither "at work" nor "with a job but not at work" during the reference week, and (2) were actively looking for work during the last 4 weeks, and (3) were available to accept a job. Also included as unemployed are civilians who did not work at all during the reference week, were waiting to be called back to a job from which they had been laid off, and were available for work except for temporary illness.

United States
The 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Units in structure
A structure is a separate building that either has open spaces on all sides or is separated from other structures by dividing walls that extend from ground to roof. In determining the number of units in a structure, all housing units, both occupied and vacant, are counted.

Unmarried
Household in which the householder and his or her partner are not legally married or participating in a common law marriage.

Urban
All territory, population and housing units in urbanized areas and in places of more than 2,500 persons outside of urbanized areas. "Urban" classification cuts across other hierarchies and can be in metropolitan or non-metropolitan areas.

Urban Area
Collective term referring to all areas that are urban. For Census 2000, there are two types of urban areas: urban clusters and urbanized areas.

Urban Cluster
A densely settled territory that has at least 2,500 people but fewer than 50,000. New for Census 2000.

Urbanized area
(UA) An area consisting of a central place(s) and adjacent territory with a general population density of at least 1,000 people per square mile of land area that together have a minimum residential population of at least 50,000 people. The Census Bureau uses published criteria to determine the qualification and boundaries of UAs.

Vacancy Status
Unoccupied housing units are considered vacant. Vacancy status is determined by the terms under which the unit may be occupied, e.g., for rent, for sale, or for seasonal use only.

Vacant housing unit
A housing unit is vacant if no one is living in it at the time of enumeration, unless its occupants are only temporarily absent. Units temporarily occupied at the time of enumeration entirely by people who have a usual residence elsewhere are also classified as vacant.

Value
Value is the respondent's estimate of how much the property (house and lot, mobile home and lot, or condominium unit) would sell for if it were for sale.

Vendor Estimate
A source estimates traffic volumes without conducting any new actual traffic surveys. These estimates are created using local expertise or a percentage factor to increase or decrease the counts.

Veteran Owned Business Enterprise (VET)
A business that is a least 51% owned by one or more veterans, who control and operate the business. Control in this context means exercising the power to make policy decisions and operate means to be actively involved in the day-to-day management of the business. The term "veteran" (38 U.S.C.'101(2)) means a person who served in the active military, naval, or air service, and who was discharged or released there. .

Veteran Business Enterprise (VBE)
Under SBA Guidelines Small Business Act (PL 85-536) as amended states: Small Business Concerns owned and controlled by veterans not less than 51% owned by one or more veterans and in the case of a publicly owned business not less than 51% of the stock is owned by one or more veterans.

Veteran status
A "civilian veteran" is a person 18 years old or over who has served (even for a short time), but is not now serving, on active duty in the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or the Coast Guard, or who served in the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II. People who served in the National Guard or military Reserves are classified as veterans only if they were ever called or ordered to active duty, not counting the 4-6 months for initial training or yearly summer camps. All other civilians 16 years old and over are classified as nonveterans.

Vietnam Veteran
A business that is a least 51% owned by one or more Vietnam Veterans who served between 1/1/59 and 5/7/75 and have control and operate the business. Control in this context means exercising the power to make policy decisions and operate means to be actively involved in the day-to-day management of the business.

Village
A type of incorporated place in 20 states and American Samoa. The Census Bureau treats all villages in New Jersey, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, and some villages in Ohio as county subdivisions.

Vintage
The date that the map or data was created or updated.

WADT
Winter Average Daily Traffic. Traffic counts deliberately taken during a winter's peak volume but are not seasonally adjusted.

WBE
(See Woman Owned Business Enterprise.)

White
Refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who indicated their race or races as "White" or wrote in entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish.

Woman Owned Business Enterprise (WBE)
At least 51% owned and controlled by individuals who are female.

ZIP Code
Administrative units established by the United States Postal Service (USPS) for the efficient distribution of mail. ZIP Codes generally do not respect political or census statistical area boundaries, nor do they usually have clearly identifiable boundaries. In addition, ZIP Codes often serve a continually changing area, are changed periodically to meet postal requirements and do not cover all the land area of the United States. The first three digits of the five-digit code identify a major city or sectional distribution center while the last two digits signify a specific post office delivery area or point.

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