FIPS Code definition
FIPS Code means the Federal Information Processing Standards code. This is a standardized set of numeric or alphabetic codes issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to ensure uniform identification of geographic entities through all federal government agencies. The entities covered include: states and statistically equivalent entities, counties and statistically equivalent entities, named populated and related location entities (such as, places and county subdivisions), and American Indian and Alaska Native areas.
Examples of FIPS Code in a sentence
Method 2 institutions reporting matched accounts to different states should use Appendix D, “Data Match FIPS Code Directory,” to determine where to file their report.
Distance 40 60 80 100 Market Fastgreedy FIPS Code HSA Code Infomap Louvain Radius Walktrap Sample Size 25000 50000 75000 100000 Main Result Notes: The main results uses the Louvain market definition.