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       Census Bureau Releases County-to-County Worker Flow Files 


  The Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released county-level data
for the nation, the 50 states and the District of Columbia that show where
people worked and where they resided at the time of Census 2000.

  The Census 2000 County-to-County Worker Flow files, compiled from
responses to long- form questions on where people worked, allow users to
sort based on the county of residence or the county of work. These files
also allow users to look at the number of people who work in a county and
determine where they reside whether in an adjacent county or in another
state.

  User instructions: The files have been created in two formats Excel
spreadsheet and ASCII (plain text). The Excel files and the uncompressed
ASCII files may be viewed with browser software. The Excel files are
accessible via word processing, spreadsheet or database programs. The
ASCII files may be imported into various software applications.

  To view the data, click "Excel" or "Uncompressed" for the row that has
the state and sort order you want. To download an Excel or uncompressed
ASCII file, hold down the shift key and click on the underlined link.

  The compressed ASCII files are not viewable; they were compressed for
faster downloading. To download one of the compressed ASCII files, click
on "Compressed" for the row that has the state and sort order you want.
For information on using PKZIP/PKUNZIP, click on the "PKZIP information
page" link. For documentation, click on the "record layout" link.

  All the products are available at http://www.census.gov/population/www/
cen2000/commuting.html.