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| Access Tools, Microdata | |
| Web tool for selecting variables and cases from the original hierarchical data released from the census bureau. The files are written into a rectangular file format which the user can read into their favorite statistical package. | PSC-Extract |
| A client/server interface that allows users to produce instantaneous results for table queries drawn from census data. | PDQ Explore: Introduction |
| Historical census microdata files. Excellent tool for researchers interested in examining trends over time. Items have been recoded so that across years each variable has the same values. If a user is only interested in a single census year, the historical integration of coding is tedious. However, the site is also an excellent source for historical information. This site includes all necessary documentation and suppports an extraction engine. | IPUMS: Integrated Public Use Microdata Samples, Historical Census Project, Minnesota Population Center |
| On this website you will find national-level industry and occupation crosswalks that provide 1990 Census industry and occupation data converted into their equivalent Census 2000 categories, and a comparison of these 1990 data to 2000 data. | Industry and Occupation Classification System |
| Access Tools, Summary Data | |
| Contains nation-wide tract-level data from 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses, combined into one product. Variables and tract boundaries are consistent across census years. | Geolytics Neighborhood Change Database |
| Provides access to summary census products (Census 2000, American Community Survey, Census Supplemental Survey). User can select table and geography and produce output (table or spreadsheet). | American FactFinder. Census Bureau |
| An easy-to-use tool that allows one to export geographic-based charcteristics. The source for the data are summary files, which have been massaged for ease-of-use. This site is good for both novices and experts, although experts may prefer to do their own collapsing of categories. | CensusScope Social Science Data Analaysis Network, (SSDAN) |
| This site allows you to browse the data files for each census decade and choose from lists of variables. You can produce lists of data by state or county that can be sorted, calculate proportions, or graph any of the variables. | Historical Census Browser |
| DADS' Apportionment Adjustment Table allows one to adjust apportionment populations and see what happens to the apportionment counts. The apportionment population for 2000 is shown for each state. You can adjust the population for one, two, or all states and have new apportionment counts selected. |
Apportionment Adjustment Table
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| This resource provides WWW access to the electronic versions of the 1988, 1994, and 2000 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets. | County and City Data Books |
| The County Business Patterns data base provides county, state, and national level business data from 1977 to the most recent year available. Statistics include number of establishments, payroll (annual and 1st quarter), number of employees, and number of establishments by size class for 2 digit SIC industry groupings. | County Business Patterns |
| These files were compiled from Census 2000 responses to the long-form (sample) questions on where people worked. The files present data at the county level for residents of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. A similar file containing data for county subdivisions (MCDs) in 12 states will be made available at a later date. | County-To-County Worker Flow Files |
| This collection consists of four county-level data files. The first three provide arrests for Part I offenses and for Part II offenses. The fourth file provides reported offenses (as opposed to arrests) for Part I crimes only. Two county population variables are included : one for total county population and the other for counties reporting six months or more of data. | Uniform Crime Reports County Data |
| All 2002 KIDS COUNT data is now available from an easy-to-use, powerful online database that allows you to generate custom graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles. You can also download the entire KIDS COUNT data set as delimited text files. | KIDS COUNT data book online |
| This Mumford Center site offers information and analyses of how the racial and ethnic composition of metropolitan areas has shifted in the last ten years, and how increasing diversity is experienced at the level of local neighborhoods. | Segregation Data - Mumford Center |
| This website provides you with indexes of racial residential segregation for all states, all counties, all metropolitan areas and all cities of 100,000 or more using information from the Census of 2000. | Racial Residential Segregation - Census 2000 Findings |
| Access Tools, Geographic Tools | |
| This tool allows one to move back and forth between different levels of geography. For instance, one can determine which county a zip code is in or vise versa, which zip codes can be found in a county. | Mable/Geocorr Correspondence Engine. |
| This tool provides a crosswalk between different units of geography based on 1998 FIPS standards. It is similar to the above crosswalk. If you can't do something in MABLE/GEOCORR, try this and vice versa | The 1998 ~ FIPS 55-DC3 Index: Places, Counties, Congressional Districts, and More. |
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