Does anybody on the list serve have
anything good to say about American FactFinder2?
I want something incredibly simple – total
housing units for the United, and occupied housing units, in
2010. When I go into this clunky, counter-intuitive product,
it either takes me to housing data from past census estimates,
or wants to give me Census 2000 housing figures.
Okay, so I decided to try for one of those
simple 2010 profiles. You can get them for the states. But
what about the country? Can’t find it. Am I supposed to add up
the housing data for all 50 states?
I don’t doubt there is an answer buried
somewhere in this system, but I’m in a hurry (who isn’t, in
the modern world) trying to develop some US comparison data
for a report. And, as usual, AFF2 lets you down when you need
it. Message to Census Bureau: please, please dump the useless
thing and just put the data we need in the “old reliable” AFF.
Jonathan Lupton AICP
Research Planner
Metroplan
Little Rock AR