File with US state pop electoral votes congress seats fips and po codes

[Art Kendall]

I have a file with the the US states, names, population, electoral votes, congressional seats, FIPS code, and Post Office codes.
Others might find useful in looking at state level data.  E.g., for following the upcoming election.

50 States, DC and PR.

I added flag variables for
States directly affected by Hurricane Sandy and
States .

I am also attaching a syntax file that will shows one application of this base data.

This is something that could be used as a class demo of a potential problem in viewing maps.
Surprise! SPSS does not key to the polygon files for the base map  by FIPS codes like it used to.  The key is by string state names.

The tables show that about half the number of states, and about half the US pop are affected by the hurricane.

Looking at the map could give a very different impression of the potential impact on people and property.
If people were evenly distributed across the states, it looks like 1/4 to 1/3 would be impacted.

The files would be available from nabble.  (I hope. This is the first time I have tried posting through nabble and attaching files.)