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Census Bureau Releases Next Round of Census 2000 Data for
Up to 249 Race/Ethnic Groups in Vermont
The U.S. Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released basic
demographic data for up to 249 race and ethnic groups down to the census
tract level in Vermont.
Summary File 2 (SF2) consists of 36 population and 11 housing tables.
Each shows data for the total population in a particular geographic area,
such as counties, county subdivisions, places, census tracts, state parts
of American Indian and Alaska Native areas, tribal subdivisions,
metropolitan areas and Hawaiian home lands.
Each table is iterated for as many as 132 race groups (e.g., Taiwanese,
Melanesian), 78 American Indian and Alaska Native tribal categories (e.g.,
Apache alone, Choctaw alone) and 39 Hispanic or Latino groups (e.g.,
Ecuadorian, Guatemalan). (Please note that the listed examples may not be
shown for all states.)
Population subjects covered include age, sex, household relationship
and household type. The data for occupied housing units include tenure
(whether the unit is owner- or renter-occupied), household size and age of
householder. SF2 is a compilation of 100 percent data information taken
from the questions asked of all people and about every housing unit as of
April 1, 2000.
Data will be released on a flow basis by state, the District of
Columbia and Puerto Rico. A weekly release schedule may be viewed on the
Census Bureau's Web site at
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/sumfile2.html.
As the data for each state are released, a set of compressed ASCII
files will be made available for downloading from the Census Bureau's FTP
server http://www2.census.gov/census_2000. The data also will
be available through the Census Bureau's search-and-retrieval database,
American FactFinder http://factfinder.census.gov.
Finally,
SF2 may be obtained on recordable CD-ROMs, which do not have software.
At a later date, CD-ROMs with a proprietary data format and software
will be available. When all states have been released, the entire file
will be put on one or two DVDs. The CDs and DVDs are sold by the Census
Bureau's Customer Service Center. For information about ordering Census
2000 products, contact the Customer Services Center on (301)763-INFO (4636)
or e-mail < webmaster@census.gov>.
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