Merged at MCD Group level.
Some CENSPRECs (xyz) in county 001 are divided into (xyz)A and (xyz)B. However, there exists similar divisions in the electoral data only in 1990.
Normally both A and B parts are in the same MCDGRP. The one exception is PRECINCT 3208A and 3208B. 3208A is in MCDGRP 001 and 3208B is in MCDGRP 002. This causes a positive result to appear in the matf county log file under: Stats to check that no MCDGRP value was changed.
In 1990 this is dealt with properly. In 1984-88 there is probably a slight excess of of electoral data attributed to MCDGRP 001 at the expense of MCDGRP 002. There are 184 observations between MCDGRPs 1 and 2 and so this error should prove to be slight.
The numeric portions of the full text precinct names in the electoral and Census databases matched about 99% of the precincts. Over the four years, no more than 15 precincts were hand assigned an MCDGRP.
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