Data catalog

Designated marketing area

Indicates the Nielsen Designated Market Area (DMA) code for the individual's location. DMAs are geographic regions defined by shared television and radio broadcast coverage. They help target campaigns by media market. Mapping codes to market names requires Nielsen's copyrighted crosswalk file.

Coverage

For how many people does Faraday have a value for this attribute? Depending on the type of attribute, Faraday could know a value for people at the individual level, or infer it based on values it knows for each person's address. Finally, in some cases, we can estimate a value for a person based on what we know about other people in their area.

0
individuals with known value
+
119,440,289
additional individuals with value imputed from their address
+
0
additional individuals with value imputed from their geography
=
119,440,289
individuals with known or imputed value

Time series

Faraday collects observations for this attribute over time. This chart shows how many observations we collected at different times.

Data distribution

Technical details

These technical details describe how Faraday represents this attribute internally.

PropertyValueAPI value
API name
designated_marketing_area
CategoryGeographyfig/geography
UnitNot applicablenull
Type Textstring
Statistical type Nominalnominal
Allowed valuesNot applicablenull
Deprecation Not deprecatedfalse
Derivations Not applicablenull
Directionality Not applicable