2004 Washington State Population Survey

Results are also available for: 2006 | 2002 | 2000 | 1998

The Washington State Population Survey has been an important source of information about the health and welfare of Washington families for the last six years. The survey, which was conducted in Spring 2004 for the fourth time, focused primarily on issues of employment, family poverty, in-migration, health, and health insurance coverage.

The Office of Financial Management (OFM) designed the original survey with consultation from a legislative staff advisory group and an extended network of more than 80 local governments, and higher education institutions. Gilmore Research Group, a private, independent research company in Seattle, administered the 2004 survey.

Results from both previous surveys are available for Washington State and, for some items, for eight regions within Washington. The regions, either single counties or groups of counties, are shown below. The sample design supports the regional data. No data are available for smaller/or other areas.

RegionCounties
North Sound (1)Island, San Juan, Skagit, Whatcom
West Balance (2)Clallam, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, Klickitat, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Skamania, Wahkiakum
King (3)King
Other Puget Sound Metro (4)Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish, Thurston
Clark (5)Clark
East Balance (6)Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield, Grant, Kittitas, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Stevens, Walla Walla, Whitman
Spokane (7)Spokane
Yakima-TriCities (8)Benton, Franklin, Yakima

A map of the State Population Survey regions is also available.

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Disclaimer: By using these data the user agrees that the Washington State Office of Financial Management shall not be liable for any activity involving these data with regard to lost profits or savings or any other consequential damages; or the fitness for use of the data for a particular purpose; or the installation of the data, its use, or the results obtained.

The 2004 SPS Release 4 analysis data file is available in both SAS (sps04_04.sas7bdat) and Excel spreadsheet (sps04_04.xls) formats.

User Notes (pdf)

The SAS file (36,471,808 bytes when extracted) may be downloaded as a self-extracting file. The SAS format file associated with this dataset, formats2004v4.sas, is included in the self-extracting file. The missing values in the SAS data set are denoted by the following:

        .A  = Skipped-Age
        .D  = Don't Know
        .R  = Refused
        .S  = Skipped
        .N  = Not Ascertained

The analysis data file in Excel spreadsheet format (19,825,152 bytes when extracted) is downloadable as a self-extracting file. The missing values in this file are denoted by negative numbers:

        -1  = Skipped-Age
        -2  = Don't Know
        -3  = Refused 
        -4  = Skipped
        -9  = Not Ascertained

Last modified: January 25, 2007
E-mail: OFM.Forecasting@ofm.wa.gov