I’m having trouble finding CBSA codes for 2000 census data. My extracts have MSA_CMSAA, CMSA, MACCI, and PMSAA. It looks like CBSAs were developed for the 2000 census ( About ) but I can’t find those codes or boundaries. Are these available somewhere? If not, is there a way to use the codes that are a…

Dear Sarah, Core-based statistical areas (CBSAs) were first published in 2003 based on results from the 2000 decennial census. The About page you linked to is bit misleading, and I understand your reading of it! The metropolitan areas published in the 2000 decennial products were to CMSA/PMSA/MSAs …

This is excellent info, thanks so much! I’m doing all my analysis at the census tract level - is it accurate to say that once I have CBSA code by county, I can just link to my tract-level extracts via the county FIPS code, since tracts are nested within counties?

Yes, you can link the tract level data to the CBSA code using the county portion of the tract identifier. That should work well! Dave

CBSA codes for 2000 census data

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Sarah_Halvorson-Frie June 27, 2024, 8:30pm 5

Wonderful, thanks!

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CBSA codes for 2000 census data

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