Federal Information Processing Series/Standards

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ECS-000704",
  "term": "Federal Information Processing Series/Standards",
  "field": "Economic statistics",
  "definition": "Standardized system of numeric coding originally issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the US Department of Commerce. FIPS codes are assigned for a variety of geographic entities including American Indian and Alaska Native Areas, Hawaiian home lands, congressional districts, counties, county subdivisions, metropolitan areas, places, and states. The purpose in using FIPS codes is to improve the use of data and avoid unnecessary duplication and incompatibility in the collection, processing, and dissemination of data.\n\nFIPS codes were discontinued by NIST in 2005, but the Census Bureau continues to maintain and issue codes for the geographic entities calling them Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) codes, using the same acronym.",
  "abbreviation": "FIPS",
  "see_also": [
    "FIPS class code"
  ],
  "references": [
    "U.S. Census Bureau Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/economic-statistics/federal-information-processing-series-standards/"
}