US Metropolitan Statistical Area

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/US_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area
GPTKB entity
Statements (31)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Statistical Area
gptkbp:abbreviation gptkb:MSA
gptkbp:basisFor Urban planning
Economic analysis
Federal funding allocation
gptkbp:composedOf One or more counties
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:criteria Urbanized area of 50,000 or more population
gptkbp:dataSource gptkb:American_Community_Survey
gptkb:Decennial_Census
gptkbp:definedIn gptkb:United_States_Office_of_Management_and_Budget
gptkbp:example gptkb:Chicago-Naperville-Elgin,_IL-IN-WI_MSA
gptkb:Los_Angeles-Long_Beach-Anaheim,_CA_MSA
gptkb:New_York-Newark-Jersey_City,_NY-NJ-PA_MSA
gptkbp:firstDefined 1949
gptkbp:governedBy Standards for Delineating Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas
gptkbp:hasComponent Outlying counties
Principal city
gptkbp:hasPopulationThreshold 50000
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label US Metropolitan Statistical Area
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:city
gptkbp:reviewedEvery 10 years
gptkbp:updated gptkb:Office_of_Management_and_Budget
gptkbp:usedBy gptkb:United_States_Census_Bureau
Businesses
Researchers
Federal agencies
Policymakers
gptkbp:usedFor Statistical purposes
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Provo-Orem_Metropolitan_Area
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7