25 Jul
2011
25 Jul
'11
2:12 p.m.
I'll share with you all the advice I give to all the various people who call looking
for Census data.
* If you need a few tables (a few topics) for a large number of locations, or for
all records of a sumlevel (for example, all Census Tracts in Minnesota), try
o http://census.ire.org/data/bulkdata.html (just the data, very quick to use)
o or http://nhgis.org (data + GIS shapefile)
* If you need many tables (many topics) for a small number of locations (less than
200 specific geographic units), try FactFinder (or FF2)
* If you need many tables (many topics) for many locations, either build your own
database from "Summaryfile" downloads at http://www2.census.gov
* Or if you need many tables (many topics) for many locations + you have SAS,
utilize downloads from http://mcdc.missouri.edu/applications/uexplore.shtml#census2010
Bottom line: There are several good sites for downloading Census data -- not just one
site.
Cheers.
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Todd Graham
Principal Forecaster and Project Manager
Metropolitan Council
390 Robert Street North
Saint Paul, MN 55101
ph: 651/602-1322
email: todd.graham(a)metc.state.mn.us
in: www.linkedin.com/in/toddgraham
web: http://www.metrocouncil.org/data/
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-----Original Message-----
From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of
Jami Garrison
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 1:00 PM
To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net
Subject: [CTPP] RE: AFF2 download
There is a drop down box. You have to select each of those 87 counties one at a time,
then download them, one at a time. Welcome to the new AFF.
-----Original Message-----
From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of
Morton, Brian J.
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 9:55 AM
To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net
Subject: [CTPP] RE: AFF2 download
I was able to download a table containing county-level population statistics. But the
downloaded file contained only the data for the particular county that was displayed in
the results tab. The file did not contain data for the other 87 counties that I had also
selected.
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Brian J. Morton, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Center for Urban and Regional Studies
University of North Carolina
Campus Box 3410
108 Battle Lane
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3410
USA
(919) 962-8847