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From: "Karl S. Vorres" <>
Subject: [ASGS] (Fwd) Census data and Maps
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:32:19 -0600


From: Karl S. Vorres <>
To:
Subject: Census data and Maps
Date sent: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:53:24 -0600

This post from the Tucson Computer Society may be of
interest

From: William MacKinnon <>
Date sent: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:09:22 -0700

Subject: [tcslst] Government releases census
data......Arizona how up to 20th largest state with 5.1+
million people......with 1.6 cars per person (just kidding
on the cars)

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Government releases census data......

You may find these links to the latest government census
data useful:

http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/2khome.htm (main page)

http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html (results)

TIGER FILES ONLINE: GEOMAPS (This is data that used to
cost $10K + to
have access to in the 80's)

TIGER Mapping Service
The "Coast to Coast" Digital Map Database.
Welcome to the home page for the TIGER Map Service, a
project sponsored by
the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The goal of this service is to
provide a
public resource for generating high-quality, detailed maps of
anywhere in
the United States, using public geographic data.
http://tiger.census.gov/

http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/products.html
Census 2000 will provide more data for more people, faster
than ever, at
little or no cost. Information about the 281,421,906 people
across the
United States will be available in a variety of formats and
media,
including the Internet, CD-ROMs, DVDs and printed reports.
Generally, most
data products will be released first on the Internet followed by
subsequent releases in other formats. For easy access to all
Census 2000
information, American FactFinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet gives
you instant
access to publications and summary data. It helps you create
your own
extracts, summarize information for geographic areas and
generate maps
online. Release Schedule:

Census 2000 Products at a
Glance
http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/c2kproduct
s.html
lists the release dates for Census 2000 data products. It
summarizes the
data for each product, the lowest level of geography for which
the data
are available, and the media in which the data will be provided.
Product
Overview:

Introduction to Census 2000 Products
http://www.census.gov/mso/www/prodprof/census2000.pdf
contains an overview
of the information available from Census 2000; a detailed
description of
the Census Bureau's geographic entities; and schedules for
the Census 2000
data products, by medium.

Census 2000 Demonstration Disc (PL94-171 data)
http://tier2.census.gov/DemoDisc.htm lets users familiarize
themselves
with the Census 2000 browser software and the Census 2000
data format for
63 race categories.


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