From Hall.Loren@epamail.epa.gov Fri Apr 20 14:38:52 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f3KLcj991528 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:38:47 -0700 Received: from myrtle.rtpnc.epa.gov (myrtle.rtpnc.epa.gov [134.67.208.33]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f3KLcjU30667 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:38:45 -0700 Received: from epahub11.rtp.epa.gov (epahub11.rtp.epa.gov [134.67.213.52]) by epamail.epa.gov (PMDF V5.2-32 #42055) with ESMTP id <0GC400AZK1FN7G@epamail.epa.gov> for waphgis@u.washington.edu; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:38:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:38:09 -0400 From: Hall.Loren@epamail.epa.gov Subject: Re: census 2000, tiger To: waphgis@u.washington.edu Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on EPAHUB11/USEPA/US(Release 5.0.6a |January 17, 2001) at 04/20/2001 05:38:10 PM >I think that someone posted a link to tiger 2000 downloads (not > esri) but I can't find it. Could you repost? You can find another source of TIGER data at: http://www.proximityone.com/maps2000.htm. Their web site also presents some explanatory info on Census 2000 data products at: http://www.proximityone.com/cen2000.htm The same company has created a utility to process the plain-text Census PL94-171 files (which are available at a Census Bureau ftp server at http://ftp2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/) into dbf format. You can find out more about this utility at: http://www.proximityone.com/asc2dbf.htm The company recently released an new utility which allows generating a single table with 40 items instead of only all 288 items in three tables containing the full PL-94-171 data. There's an additional utility which combines the 40 item attribute data with Census 2000 geographic data (at block, block group or tract levels currently) to produce a combination geography/attribute shape file. More info on this is at: http://www.proximityone.com/cen2shp.htm [disclaimer: mention of these products does not constitute endorsement by my employer.] >Also, wondering if anyone has found a census 2000 download page >similar to the 1990 CD lookup at: >http://venus.census.gov/cdrom/lookup or >http://www2.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/census90/house11/housdesc.htm The Census Bureau is releasing the Census 2000 data online via its new American Factfinder interactive site. The PL94-171 demographic data is available at: http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/pldata.html After first choosing a state, the site displays one of the "quick tables" of summary data. Changing the selection using the drop down menu choices allows a user to specify a state/county combination to retrieve tabular data down to tract level. If you choose "detailed tables" you can specify output geography down to block level. It should allow you to iteratively select multiple geographic areas, although I have not tried large retrievals such as all the blocks in a county yet. Loren Hall US EPA Office of Civil Rights .