More frustration with AFF2! So, the answer is ALL the Summary File 1
tables ARE available in AFF2. The mistake I made in my earlier email
was that I clicked on "Summary File 1" in the text box with the
magnifying glass in the center of the page, and that choice ONLY gave me
the Quick Tables.
To get to ALL the Summary File 1 tables, select TOPICS in the blue box
on the left side of the page, then go to "+ Datasets" still on the LEFT
side of the page, and then select "Summary File 1" and you will have 5
pages to find the specific table you are looking for. (Only some
states have been released so far)
Thank you to Linda Clark at the Seattle Regional Office of the Census
Bureau for helping me!
Elaine
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Subject: [CTPP] Directions on importing Summary File 1 into MS Access
Would anyone like to volunteer to test out these directions and then
report back to the CTPP listserv on how well it worked?
http://www2.census.gov/census_2010/04-Summary_File_1/0HowToUseMSAccessWi
thSummaryFile1.pdf
Sometimes when I send an email, the link gets broken. The full link
ends in "....pdf"
In the meantime, I am testing out the data access system at the Missouri
data extractor (Dexter/uexplore) to look at Summary File 1. It is
pretty easy, so far.
http://mcdc.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/uexplore?/pub/data/sf12010
on this page, select the FIRST LINE "Datasets.html" then I selected
Colorado.
I chose counties in Denver 08031 using the FILTER (first set of
boxes) and selected "tracts" and then I selected Table H 12 and got a
comma-delimited file, which I read into excel. You have to select BOTH
the geography fields in the LEFT box as well as the table (variable)
fields in the RIGHT box. If you forget to select the geography fields,
you will get the table variables without any corresponding geography,
which is not very useful. Ask me how I know. J
Finally, I thought that when the Census released the Summary File 1
files on the ftp site that it meant the data would also be in AFF2, but
apparently this is not true. There are "quick tables" in AFF2, and
these may satisfy your needs, but it is not the full set.
Elaine Murakami
FHWA Office of Planning
206-220-4460