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American FactFinder
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State and County QuickFacts
- Rankings, Comparisons, and Summaries (not accessible through
FactFinder)
- 109th Congress FastFacts
- 1997 Surveys of Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises
- 2005 Data Profiles demographic, social, economic, and housing data for over 800 geographical areas(American Community Survey --
Released 09/06)
Adobe .pdf format:
- SF-3 profile data in Adobe format
- Census Publications 1990 and 2000 Census bound volumes and more
Census News:
- Census 2000 release schedule (with links to tables and downloadable data files)
- Census Bureau Public-News-Alert (receive Census Bureau news via e-mail on
the day of release)
Data Downloads:
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ftp2.census.gov (requires FTP client software)
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Direct downloads of 2000 census files from FTP server (with browser)
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Direct downloads of 2000 TIGER files (geographic) from FTP server (with browser)
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U.S. Census Bureau Cartographic Resources (shapefiles for all states-- block-group and up)
Miscellaneous Technical Info::
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CD-ROM assistance
- FIPS 55-DC3 Online FIPS Index Comprehensive listing of FIPS numbers nationwide
- SUMMARY LEVEL SEQUENCE CHARTS
- Census 2000 Summary File 3 ASCII text data files (how to extract, import, etc)
Tutorials
- A Beginner's Guide to Using Census 2000 Data --
step-by-step guide for converting raw census files to a usable format.
- MapCruzinTM Map -Tutorial and Atlas -- includes an easy-to-use mapping program (ESRI's free ArcExplorer®) and a full suite of map layers. No previous GIS or
mapping experience is required.
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Google Maps API Tutorial
Census 2000 School District Data and Maps
- School District Demographics Website (National Center for Education Statistics)
Census 2000 Adjusted Data
- Nationwide Dataset in PL-94-171 file format -- (UCLA)(see also FairData downloads)
2000 Census University of Wisconsin Center for Demography and Ecology FTP site)
- SF1 Demographic Profiles -- Via FTP -- nationwide
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PL94_171. Files -- via FTP -- state by state (full dataset) (see also FairData downloads)
SAS Export Files: (requires FTP client software)
*Note that SAS truncates variable labels at 40 characters in transport files.
- Download the free SAS System Viewer (with text-file export
capability)
Political Data
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Record Of American Democracy -- mappable political data covering all states for the
period 1984-1990 (Harvard)
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State Redistricting Sites -- GIS data and mappable political
data
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State boards of
elections (via Google)
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Social and Economic Data for the 109th Congress (Techpolitics.org)
Historical Census Data
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National Historical Geographic Information System
(University of Minnesota)
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1990-related files and FTP downloads (UC-Berkeley Library)
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Census 2000 to 1990 Block Relationship Files (county-based prepared by Census Bureau)
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1990 Tiger Files (via FTP from CIESIN Atlas .bna format)
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1970-1990 Data (University of Wisconsin Center for Demography and Ecology FTP site)
GIS software (Commercial)
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Caliper -- Maptitude
Maptitude Users group
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ESRI (ArcView and ArcGIS)
A free GIS shape file viewer and geographic boundary files in shapefile format, for use with the 2000 census, can be downloaded from:
ArcExplorer:
http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html
Geographic files:
http://www.esri.com/data/download/census2000_tigerline/index.html
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Manifold
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MapInfo
GIS software (Open Source/Free)
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FWTools (GIS utilities )
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GIS Tools
(TIGER and SF conversion utilities, UT-Knoxville)
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MapWindow
(best free Windows-based GIS,
Tutorial from Free
Geography Tools)
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PostGIS (spatial database)
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QGIS
(cross-platform GIS)
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uDig and
GeoServer
(web mapping)
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MapGuide (web mapping)
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MapServer (web mapping)
Charts
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Corda -- interactive charting and mapping software
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Corda's resource page -- comprehensive listing of mapping and charting
sites
Free GIS data
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Geotorrent.org -- peer-to-peer sharing of geospatial data
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FreeGis Project
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MapCruzinTM GIS layers -- Some of the many layer categories include:
Environmental (Air, Land, Water), Wildlife, Hazards, Federal Lands and Transportation. Most layers are available in Maptitude, ArcView, and MapInfo formats.
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National Atlas -- in addition to the interactive map, there are numerous GIS databases available
for download -- from Abandoned mines to Wildlife mortality.
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Proximity -- A complex site with lots of free Census 2000 data -- plus extraction utility
software.
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Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line® Shapefiles (via
Geography Network)
-- includes some 2000 demographic data from PL 94-171 and SF-1 files
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State Redistricting Sites -- in many cases, the best source for
statewide GIS data
Library Resources
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Census Guide 2000 (University of Michigan -- comprehensive,
frequent updates)
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Mapz (blog by a GIS librarian)
Miscellaneous
- Adobe Acrobat -- essential for creating high resolution files for Internet
viewing of maps
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GetRight® GetRight improves on the
ability of your web browser's built in downloading by supporting
graceful error recovery, download resuming, and many
other advanced downloading features
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Using MIF & SHP data in Microsoft MapPoint
- WS_FTP Pro --FTP client -- Includes a wildcard "find" feature that is essential
for downloading numerous files across multiple directories Free 30-day evaluation.
- WS_FTP LE is the limited edition version of WS_FTP