Supplementary_Workbook_Data_and_Coding

This supplementary workbook supports the article “When the Unincorporated County Is Not One Place: Settlement Fields and Instrument Scale in Palm Beach County, Florida,” submitted to Land Use Policy.

The workbook provides the derived calculations, coding matrices, source documentation, and reproducibility materials used in the manuscript. It includes jurisdictional land and population calculations for Palm Beach County municipalities and the unincorporated county, Census 2020 urban-area relationship-file calculations, settlement-field typology validation, instrument-scale coding, table-source mapping, figure-source documentation, source inventory, method protocol, and reproducibility checks.

The materials document how the manuscript separates municipal geography from urbanized land, validates the internal differentiation of unincorporated Palm Beach County through official planning and regulatory sources, and evaluates whether county planning instruments operate at the scale of the settlement conditions they govern.

The workbook is provided to support transparency, reproducibility, and verification of the calculations and coding decisions reported in the article.