Joining data from zips and counties

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03-18-2016 11:25 AM
ChaseBergklint1
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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?

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DanPatterson_Retired
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are the zips fully contained within the county?  If so you could summarize the zip data and join the resultant to the county file.  You might have to use a spatial join if you don't have a common attribute field.

ChaseBergklint1
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No, they are not. I have the counties and zip codes as two different shapefiles.

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DanPatterson_Retired
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spatial join then

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