Documentation for LORS data files for 1960, 1971, 1980, 1990.

by Thomas J. Holmes

Posted February 2007

See www.econ.umn.edu/~holmes/data/LORS for links to the data.

These files were all created by scanning in the Register of Reporting Labor Organizatons for the respective years. I also matched up the location information with FIPS codes (both place and county).

Position	Variable	Type	Length	Label	Description
1	CHTR_CITY	Char	30		Charter City of organization
2	chtr_st	Char	2		Charter State of Organization
3	PAGE	Num	8	page # in directory	Page # in directory
4	CATEGORY	Char	1		Category=1, subcat=11, Trade Councils Category=1, subcat=12, DALU (Directly Affiliated Labor Union) Category=2, Affiliated Labor Organziations Category=3, Unaffiliated
5	SUBCAT	Char	2		see above
6	UNIT	Char	120		Unit Name
7	booksort	Num	8	sort order in directory	Order in which organization appears in the Register
8	AFF_NAME	Char	65		Affiliation Name
9	F_NUMBER	Char	6		File Number
10	PLACE	Char	5	Place (FIPS)	Place (FIPS): Source is the set of places in the 2000 Census. I obtained the geographic file from there.
11	PLACETXT	Char	52		Text of Place
12	COUNTY	Char	3	County (FIPS)
13	CNTYTEXT	Char	22
14	ZIP	Char	5
15	st	Char	2	State (FIPS)
16	YEAR	Num	8