U.S. Census Bureau

Electronic Product User Note

Statistical Compendia

Census Catalog and Guide

The off-line HTML document browser on the CD-ROM has a built-in search engine. It can be used to display a list of documents whose contents and/or filenames contain one or more keywords. Click on File, then Find File to activate the search engine.

On-line catalog (all) and updates

County and City Data Book

1994
Download DOS software (corrects runtime error - R6003 divide by zero message) 01/14/1999
Usernote

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Viewing Statistical Abstract PDF files

The Statistical Abstract files are in Adobe Acrobat Reader (tm) format (PDF). They contain links to spreadsheets (also on the disc).

Welcome.PDF contains the Table of Contents and is the "home page". For some editions later than 1997, this file is named CONTENTS.PDF.

1997
Creating a shortcut to the file Welcome.PDF:
1. Right-click anywhere on the desktop and choose 'New'
2. Choose 'Shortcut'
3. Type the command line [letter of cd-drive]:\Welcome.PDF i.e. E:\WELCOME.PDF
4. Click Finish

This will create a Shortcut to the Welcome.PDF file and keep all of the attributes associated with it; searching and the links. An error message will occur if the shortcut is activated when the 1997 Statistical Abstract CD-ROM is not in the CD drive.

Also, trying to create a shortcut by copying Welcome.PDF to the desktop does not work. All of the relative linking and indexing will be lost and no other PDF can be accessed.

Creating this Shortcut does not disable the AutoPlay feature built in to the 1997 Statistical Abstract CD-ROM. The Installation screen will continue to pop up when the disc is inserted into a CD drive.

USA Counties

* File size [download size, uncompressed size]

1998
Download technical documentation (Windows help file format) [470 KB, 637.4 KB] 04/23/1999
Download Windows XP software [7.7M,12.1M] 02/26/2004
Copy files to hard drive folder and run setup.exe application file. Install from this on-line package instead of disc.

Download Windows 2000 software [116K,328K] 01/24/2001
This version fixes 'runtime error 6 message' when using the Copy function (to output file). Copy the software update (after uncompressing it) to C:\Program Files\USA_Counties_1998 (if default drive and path were accepted during installation).

1996
Usernote
Download DOS software 08/26/1998
Download Windows software [117 KB, 218 KB] 08/26/1998
Download datafiles [3.03 MB, 14.21 MB]

1994
Download DOS software [216 KB, 416 KB]
Version May 1995 This version replaces the previous version, December 1994. The "Print 1 Item for several geographic areas" option has been fixed. Also when creating TD for a "copy file", some descriptions were not included in the December version. This too has been fixed.

1992
Download DOS software [210 KB, 416 KB]


Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Administrative and Customer Services Division, Electronic Products Development Branch
Last Revised: June 20, 2006 at 04:12:51 PM [an error occurred while processing this directive]