...of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget. The three types of MAs were: Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), Consolidated...and Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas (PMSAs). MSAs and CMSAs were equivalent levels of geography; PMSAs were subdivisions of CMSAs. CEO recognized...

...England county metropolitan areas (NECMAs) for use with county-based data. The standards for establishing metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), consolidated...and primary metropolitan statistical areas (PMSAs) are divided into 16 numbered sections, which are presented at the end of this appendix. Each section...

...metropolitan or nonmetropolitan areas. Statistics relating to metropolitan areas are presented in terms of metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), consolidated...and primary metropolitan statistical areas, (PMSAs). All three are usually defined in terms of entire counties. In 1990, there were 284 metropolitan areas,...

...metropolitan areas following a set of official standards. Various categories of metropolitan areas include metropolitan statistical areas [MSAs], consolidated...and primary metropolitan statistical areas [PMSAs]. An MSA consists of one or more counties that contain a city of 50,000 or more inhabitants, or contain...

...with adjacent communities that have a high degree of social and economic integration with that core. Metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), consolidated...and primary metropolitan statistical areas (PMSAs) are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as a standard for federal agencies in the...

...Census Bureau population estimates. The term "metropolitan area" (MA) was used to refer collectively to metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), consolidated...and primary metropolitan statistical areas (PMSAs) as defined according to 1 980 and I 990 standards. The term "core-based statistical area" (CBSA) became...

...(MSA) in 1983. The collective term "'metropolitan area' (MA) became effective in 1990. MAs include metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), consolidated...and primary metropolitan statistical areas (PMSAs)" (US Bureau of the Census 2000). 17. The other PMSAs in the NY-NI-CT-PA CMSA are Bergen-Passaic, New...

...defined by the Office of Management and Budget, are a standard for federal statistics. MAs consist of metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), consolidated...and primary metropolitan statistical areas (PMSAs). MA definitions in this report were effective June 30, 1996. ln 1 996, more than half (56.5 percent)...