Census of population and housing, 1980 [United States]
Subtitle: census software package (CENSPAC) version 3.2 with STF4 data dictionaries
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
Series: ICPSR -- 7789; ICPSR (Series) -- 7789
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Description: The Census Software Package (CENSPAC) is a generalized data retrieval system that the Census Bureau developed for use with its public use statistical data files. CENSPAC primarily provides processing capabilities for summary data files, but it also has some features that are applicable to microdata files. This data set contains export and import trade data collected on a country by country, directional basis. All data are reported in United States dollars.
Notes: Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

The source is the International Monetary Fund series of annual volumes, Direction of Trade.

Version 3.2 of CENSPAC consists of programs written in 1974 ANSI COBOL and requires 170k bytes of main memory, direct access storage for dictionary files, and input and output devices. CENSPAC was developed on an IBM 370/168 VS, but is also operational under UNIVAC EXEC-8, IBM OS, IBM DOS, Burroughs 7700 CIC 7000, UNIVAC 90/80, Honeywell 6600, DEC 20, DEC Vax, and APPLE II operating systems. The actual software is provided in 18 tape files on one tape providing sample JCL for system installation, programs for system reconfiguration, source code for CENSPAC, machine-readable data dictionaries for STF 1, STF 2, STF 3, and, most recently, for STF 4.

Documentation is provided from the Bureau of the Census detailing the CENSPAC command language for file definition and report generation, the Census documentor for preparing file documentation, as well as information on systems installation.

18 tape files on one tape.