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 Disorganize To end the legal existence of an MCD as a governmental unit through legal action taken by a county/State. See also disincorporate, functional status (governmental), functioning governmental unit, nonfunctioning governmental unit.

District A type of nonfunctioning county equivalent found in American Samoa; any of several types of geographic areas recognized by the Census Bureau. See also American Indian subreservation area, assessment district, election district, magisterial district, municipal district, Outlying Area, parish governing authority district, road district, voting district.

Division (census geographic) A grouping of States within a census geographic region, established by the Census Bureau for the presentation of census data. The current nine divisions (East North Central, East South Central, Middle Atlantic, Mountain, New England, Pacific, South Atlantic, West North Central, and West South Central) are intended to represent relatively homogeneous areas that are subdivisions of the four census geographic regions. See also region (census geographic).

EC See economic census.

Economic census (EC) Collective name for the censuses of construction, manufactures, minerals, minority- and women-owned businesses, retail trade, service industries, transportation, and wholesale trade, conducted by the Census Bureau every five years, in years ending in 2 and 7. See also census of agriculture, census of governments.

Economic Geographic Information Reference Tape (EGIRT) Before 1992, the control file for geographic codes related to all economic censuses, used for editing the Address Reference File (ARF) and the City Reference File (CRF). The EGIRT contained names and codes for all geographic entities that the Census Bureau recognized in the EC data tabulations. G-20Glossary