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Census 2000 Geographic Definitions (Census Bureau)

Substantial definitions of geographic terms such as MSA, urban area, census tract

Census 2000 Home Page (Census Bureau)

Census 2000 Questionnaire

Separate short and long-form questionnaires in pdf format
Description of subject concepts, including grandparents as caregivers
Comparison of 1990 and 2000 questionnaires with the date the 2000 subjects were first asked (e.g. age in 1790, income in 1940)

Census Bureau

American Factfinder covers labor force, occupation, and industry through the Decennial Census and American Community Survey sections of Data Sets
Employment by industry to the county and occasionally city level also appears in the 2002 Economic Census; to the county and metropolitan area level in County Business Patterns

Census Bureau CD-ROMS

The Census Bureau has produced several CD-ROMS of data for Summary Files 1, 2 and 3
Provides more geographic choices and extracts multiple tables into a single table
CD-ROMS are publicly accessible through the Documents Center LAN (e.g. Documents CD-ROMS icon on all Documents Center workstations

Census Bureau Web Site

Press releases of current demographic, economic, and housing trends
Historic income and poverty data; national population projections
American Factfinder
- The Census Bureau's premier database for accessing Decennial Census, Economic Census, and American Community Survey data

Census CD: 1970

Third Count (sample) data from the national to the census tract level for the entire nation
Data can be extracted in a variety of formats
Thematic maps which may be modified and used with separate boundary files
Commercial CD-ROM by Geolytics comes with strict copyright warnings against for-profit use or mounting extracted data/maps to the web
Documents Center Computer No. 3; Call number: Do 163

Census CD: 1980

Census Data, 1790-1860

Census data for states and counties retrievable through a user-friendly forms interface
Earliest censuses include total population, age, sex, free or slave
Beginning 1840 additional detail for occupation, education, churches, mortality, and wealth available
Joint project between Harvard and ICPSR

Census of Agriculture

State reports are very large files in Adobe Acrobat format
Interactive tool for extracting data on land in farms, products sold at the state, county, zip code and Congressional district level is available for some years
Subject reports, atlas, and state/county summaries are unique and more usable than state reports