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Detailed Demographic Data From
Census 2000 Released for Puerto Rico
The U.S. Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released the first
detailed demographic data based on Census 2000 questions asked of all
people and about every housing unit in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
The electronic file (Summary File 1) includes statistical data on the
following population items: sex, age, race, Hispanic or Latino origin,
household relationship, and household and family characteristics. Housing
items include occupancy status and tenure (whether the unit is owner- or
renter-occupied).
Summary File 1 contains 286 tables for states, counties, county
subdivisions, places, census tracts, ZIP code tabulation areas, as well as
congressional districts for the 106th Congress and, where applicable,
American Indian and Alaska Native areas and Hawaiian home lands. For most
subjects, data for census block groups and blocks also are shown.
As each state is released, the set of compressed ASCII files will be
made available for download from the Census Bureau's new
search-and-retrieval database, American FactFinder
http://factfinder.census.gov and via its FTP server
http://www2.census.gov/census_2000. At the same time, these files will be
available for purchase from the Census Bureau's Customer Services Center
on recordable CD-ROMs that will not have software. In addition, the Census
Bureau plans to subsequently release a value-added CD-ROM product with a
proprietary data format and software. It, too, may be purchased from
Customer Services. When all states have been released, the Census Bureau
will put the entire SF1 for all states on one or two DVDs.
A weekly release schedule will be posted on a special page on the Census
Bureau's Web site at
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/sumfile1.html. For
information about ordering Census 2000 products, contact Customer Services
on 301-457-4100 or e-mail .
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