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ZIP Code

Zoning Improvement Plan Code. A series of five numbers identifying the area of the United States in which to deliver mail. While some ZIP codes are reserved for post office boxes and single addresses receiving large volumes of mail, most identify the general area, such as the town or neighborhood, to which correspondence is addressed. They were introduced in 1963.

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Population characteristics at the zip code level are taken from the 2007-2011 ACS five-year estimates.

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With respect to the traditional economic data even macroeconomic data--Mian and Sufi (2009) exploit financial data at the ZIP code level in a nationally representative study, examining the relationship between income growth, mortgage credit, and subprime mortgages leading in to the financial crisis of 2008.

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Retailers are beginning to wonder if there could be problems down the road with collecting IP addresses, planting cookies or using loyalty card data--all of which are far more detailed and intrusive than collecting ZIP codes.

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The California Supreme Court has ruled that California merchants can no longer ask for the zip codes of customers who make purchases with credit cards.

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Many state and federal agencies compile and distribute data at the county or zip code level but are unwilling to do so at lower levels for reasons of confidentiality.

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Figure 1 is a scatterplot of the share of cash transactions in each zip code in 2015 and 2011, on the y- and x-axes respectively.

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The annual rent increase in their data was 2.2% and the average ZIP code experienced a 6.5% annual increase in Airbnb listings.