
Hello everyone,

I am a graduate student currently working with census tract data. I have identified census tracts as either having a certain characteristic or not, using a dummy variable. This variable is coded as 1 if the tract has that characteristic and 0 if it doesn't. I would like to take all contiguous tracts coded as 1 and dissolve them into single records. What would be left are all of the original tracts that do not have this characteristic, coded as 0, and records for the larger dissolved areas that contained this characteristic. I originally thought the SKATER function might work, but I don't think it will work properly with a dummy variable.
 
Thanks,
Matt 		 	   		  
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