topic Re: Joining data from zips and counties in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/joining-data-from-zips-and-counties/m-p/694241#M39432 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No, they are not. I have the counties and zip codes as two different shapefiles.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:39:40 GMT ChaseBergklint1 2016-03-21T17:39:40Z Joining data from zips and counties https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/joining-data-from-zips-and-counties/m-p/694239#M39430 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><BR />I have a project that I am working on that is looking at alumni from my school. I have the number of alumni per zip code but I would like to analyze it also by county. How can I do this?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:25:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/joining-data-from-zips-and-counties/m-p/694239#M39430 ChaseBergklint1 2016-03-18T18:25:51Z Re: Joining data from zips and counties https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/joining-data-from-zips-and-counties/m-p/694240#M39431 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>are the zips fully contained within the county?&nbsp; If so you could summarize the zip data and join the resultant to the county file.&nbsp; You might have to use a spatial join if you don't have a common attribute field.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:39:43 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/joining-data-from-zips-and-counties/m-p/694240#M39431 DanPatterson_Retired 2016-03-18T18:39:43Z Re: Joining data from zips and counties https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/joining-data-from-zips-and-counties/m-p/694241#M39432 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No, they are not. I have the counties and zip codes as two different shapefiles.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:39:40 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/joining-data-from-zips-and-counties/m-p/694241#M39432 ChaseBergklint1 2016-03-21T17:39:40Z Re: Joining data from zips and counties https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/joining-data-from-zips-and-counties/m-p/694242#M39433 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>spatial join then</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:46:05 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/joining-data-from-zips-and-counties/m-p/694242#M39433 DanPatterson_Retired 2016-03-21T17:46:05Z