Filename:	state_g14_absentees_by_g14_srprec.dbf, state_g14_absentees_by_g14_srprec.csv

File URL:	http://statewidedatabase.org/pub/data/G14/state/state_g14_absentees_by_g14_srprec.zip

Dataset:	2014 General Election Precinct Data

Description:	This file contains statewide registration data for registered voters that voted by absentee ballot.  

Unit of analysis: SR precincts are derived from consolidated precincts and are a geographic unit constructed for statistical merging purposes by the Statewide Database.

Data source:	Statewide Database - University of California, Berkeley

Technical documentation:	http://statewidedatabase.org/d10/Creating%20CA%20Official%20Redistricting%20Database.pdf

Codebook:	http://statewidedatabase.org/info/metadata/SOR_codebook.html

Date last modified:	Tue, 25 Sep 2018

Previous versions:	Sat, 20 Jun 2015;	Thu, 11 Jun 2015;	Fri, 01 May 2015

County records unavailable at time of file creation:	none

Errata 1: Counties who reported all of their VBM voters in the mail ballot file 

011 - Colusa absentee voters were not reported, the mail ballot file contains all of the county's VBM voters 
023 - Humboldt absentee voters were not reported, the mail ballot file contains all of the county's VBM voters

Errata 2: 

009 - Calaveras has a record of only 50 absentee voters. The mail ballot file has the remainder of the county's VBM voters
043 - Mariposa has a record of only 19 absentee voters. The mail ballot file has the remainder of the county's VBM voters
051 - Mono has a record of only 6 absentee voters. The mail ballot file has the remainder of the county's VBM voters 

Errata 3:

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 records in the file were updated for the following counties: c057 - Nevada and c083 - Santa Barbara.

The current, Tue, 25 Sep 2018 statewide version of this file has 4 more records than the 2015 version. Total poll voters are the same in both files. There are 2 additional sr precinct records in the c057 -Nevada file and 2 additional sr precincts in the c083 - Santa Barbara file.

The 2018 statewide version of c057 - Nevada file has 60 total records while the 2015 version has 58 total records. The 2018 version has 3 sr precincts: "MB65", totreg_r=85, "MB68", totreg_r=52, and "MB69", totreg_r=78 that are not present in the 2015 version.  The 2015 version has 1 sr precinct, "MB53" with totreg_r=215 that is not in the 2018 version. 

The 2018 statewide version of c083 - Santa Barbara file has 202 total records while the 2015 version has only 200 total records. The 2018 statewide version of the file has 2 sr precincts, sr precinct "30-3029" with totreg_r = 8 & sr precinct "40-4029" with totreg_r=3 that are not present in the 2015 version file. In the 2015 version of the file, there is an sr precinct "30-3028" with totreg_r=8 and an sr precinct "40-4028" with totreg_r=11. In the 2018 version of the file, sr precinct "30-3028" has a totreg_r=0 and sr precinct "40-4028" has a totreg_r=8.