Guide to the
2002 Economic Census
PDF's, DVD-ROM's, American
FactFinder, and Drill-Down Tables
PDF's (portable document format files)
- Simple to use
- Look just like the printed reports issued from previous censuses
- Includes almost all Economic Census data
- Free at www.census.gov.
- Can be printed out. See Print on demand
below.
DVD-ROM
- All of the data in a form easy to manipulate.
- Win XP, 2000, 98, and NT users get powerful yet easy-to-use software that
can answer simple questions or provide a complete economic profile for an
area.
- Data files in mdb format can also be used on non-Windows platforms.
- Users can select, reformat, and rank the numbers, and then export the data
to a spreadsheet or other application for further manipulation.
- A comprehensive medium for 2002 Economic Census data and maps.
- Software can be set to download more recently released data from an FTP
site.
- Sold by subscription only, with discs updated periodically as more publications
become available.
- For sale from Census Customer Services.
- Data from previous censuses back to 1987 are available on CD-ROM, although
CD-ROMs for 1992 and earlier use different access software.
- More information about 2002 DVD-ROMs
American FactFinder
- Accessible via www.census.gov or factfinder.census.gov
- "Database" format, with functions similar to the DVD-ROMs, including
export to ASCII and html formats.
- Simple displays through Industry Quick Reports and Geography Quick Reports
- Customized queries through the "data sets" option (See tutorial)
- Free at www.census.gov.
Drill-down tables
- The quickest access to facts
- The simplest navigation to other data and to definitions of terms.
- Accesses the most frequently used data.
- Free at www.census.gov/econ2002.
Print on demand
- Each electronic format can generate printed output at your own workstation.
- Printed output from PDFs looks just like tables in printed reports issued
from earlier censuses.
- Census Customer Services can print and bind any PDF report on demand,
priced at $25 or more per report, depending on the number of pages.
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