Bureau of Health Professions area resource file, 1940-1987

The Area Resource File (ARF) is a county-based data file summarizing secondary data from a wide variety of sources that are useful to health analysts and other researchers investigating the nation's health care delivery system. The file contains over 6,000 data elements for all counties in the United States except Alaska. Data elements include county descriptor codes, health professions data (including number of professionals working in different fields), health facility and training data, population and economic data, and limited data on vital statistics, industry, housing expenditure, and environmental factors.