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From: "Michael R. Meuser" <meuser@mapcruzin.com>
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Subject: Re: census 2000, tiger
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Thanks Loren - very helpful

mike

> 
> >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
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