PMSAs were introduced in 1983. See also consolidated metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan area, metropolitan statistical area, primary metropolitan statistical area, standard consolidated area, standard consolidated statistical area, standard metropolitan area.
State/state A type of governmental unit that is the primary legal subdivision of the United States; a functioning county equivalent in Palau, where it also serves as a nonfunctioning MCD.
State certifying official The State official designated annually by the Governor of each State to review and certify that the Census Bureau’s inventory of local governmental units in that State is accurate, and that the boundary change actions reported in response to its BAS are accomplished in accordance with State law.
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). See also division (census geographic), Federal Information Processing Standards, Geographic Identification Code Scheme.
State/County Outline Map A page-size, State-based map series depicting the boundaries and names of all counties and equivalent entities in a State.
State economic area (SEA) A group of adjacent counties within a State that have similar economic and social characteristics, as determined by various governmental agencies. An SEA may be a single metropolitan county with unique characteristics. SEAs are the lower level of a two-tiered system of county combinations that includes the economic subregions (ESRs). From 1950 through 1980, the Census Bureau tabulated decennial census data by SEA/ESR. See also economic subregion.
