Geographic Distribution of Decertification Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal 1981

p. 332. This crop is a continuation page: no column headings are printed on it, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 16 numeric columns plus the stub, counted from the column rules and confirmed by the "Total, all States and areas" line. Column alignment was checked by summing each region's member states against its printed subtotal. East South Central, West South Central, Mountain, Pacific and Outlying Areas all reconcile exactly in every column except the two cases below, which gives high confidence that each value sits under the right column. Two apparent misprints, transcribed exactly as printed: 1. Louisiana, numeric column 8 (the column whose West South Central subtotal is 30,510): printed 6,907. Arkansas 4,432 + Louisiana 6,907 + Oklahoma 4,495 + Texas 12,676 = 28,510, which is 2,000 short of the printed 30,510; a value of 8,907 would reconcile. The cell is also anomalous because Louisiana's column-9 figure (8,152) exceeds it, whereas column 8 is larger than column 9 everywhere else in the table. The leading digit reads as a 6 in the scan, so it is left as 6,907. 2. One cell in numeric column 12 (the column whose East South Central subtotal is 2,388): Kentucky 865 + Tennessee 1,350 + Alabama 75 + Mississippi 48 = 2,338, 50 short of the printed 2,388. All four values and the subtotal read clearly in the scan, so none was adjusted; the discrepancy may be a printing error in the source or in one of these four cells (Alabama's 75 and Mississippi's 48 are the shortest and therefore the most likely to have lost a digit). A line of footnote text is printed below the body of the table but is sliced off by the bottom edge of the crop; only the upper halves of the letters survive, reading approximately "The State(s) ... are grouped according to the method used by the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of C...". No footnote marker is visible on it and the text cannot be read reliably, so footnotes is left empty. Several row labels show the scan's dotless-i artifact (e.g. "Georgıa", "Mıssıssıppı", "Louısıana", "Wyomıng", "Arızona", "Calıfornıa", "Hawaıı", "Puerto Rıco"); these are transcribed with ordinary "i".