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Proceedings of the 9th Annual
Federal Depository Library Conference
October 22 - 25, 2000
Cover/Title Page | Table of Contents | Agenda
Delivering Census 2000 Information to Users
John Kavaliunas
U.S. Census Bureau
Washington, DC
Census 2000 Data Products
Our Goal: To deliver timely information in appropriate formats to a variety of customer groups.
Major Product Lines
- Products: Summary Files, Profiles, Quick Tables, Geographic Comparison Tables, printed reports, maps, microdata
- Media: Internet, CD-ROMs, DVDs, publications
- Formats: ASCII, PDF, custom, other
Media
- Internet
- CD-ROM /DVD
- Paper
Internet
- Data released first on American FactFinder
- Community profiles available under QuickFacts
- Printed reports available in Portable Document Format (PDF)
- Maps available in Portable Document Format (PDF)
- Download (FTP) option
CD-ROM/DVD
- Redistricting Summary File and 4 series of detailed tables similar to 1990 STFs
- Profiles, Quick Tables, Geographic Comparison Tables, and printed reports (PDF)
- Maps (PDF)
- Access software
- Formats
Paper
- 3 Series of printed reports
- Summary Population and Housing Characteristics
- Sumary Social, Economic and Housing Characteristics
- Population and Housing Unit Totals
- Census Block Maps
- Census Tract Outline Maps
- Reference Maps
Redistricting Summary File
- Total population and 18-and-over population by 63 race categories and Hispanic/Latino
- Lowest level of geography: block
- Release date: March 2001
100-Percent Summary Files
Summary File 1
- Counts and cross tabulations
Summary File 2
- Tables reiterated by race, Hispanic/Latino, and American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes
Sample Data Summary Files
Summary File 3
- Counts and cross tabulations
Summary File 4
- Tables reiterated by race, Hispanic/Latino, and American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes, and ancestry
Demographic Profiles
100-Percent data profile
Sample data profiles
Census 2000 Data Products
Quick Tables
Geographic Comparison Tables
Maps and Related Products
- Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files
- Census Block Maps (County and Governmental Units)
- Census Tract Outline Maps
- Boundary Files
Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files
- January/February 2001 release without ZCTAs or final address ranges
- March release with complete geography
Census Block Maps
- Paper (January/February 2001) (May 2001)
- HPGL (March 2001) (June 2001)
- PDF (April/May 2001) (July 2001)
Census Tract Outline Maps
- Paper, Internet, DVD
- PDF and HPGL
- Various releases: January through May 2001
Boundary Files
- Suitable for desktop mapping
- Internet
- Summer 2001
Public Use Microdata Files
- Unaggregated records of responses to Census 2000 with all identifying information removed
- Two Files
- 1-Percent National Characteristics File
- 5-Percent State Files
- 100,000 population threshold for geography
- 10,000 population threshold for characteristics
Timeline for Census 2000 Data
- December 31, 2000: Official apportionment counts
- April 1, 2001: Data for 63 race groups and Hispanic/Latino by block
- Summer 2001: 100-percent counts and characteristics
- Summer 2002: Sample data products
For more information:
http://www.census.gov
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