Certainly hope these sentiments get deep inside the Census Bureau. This website is beyond hope and needs to be discarded asap.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Patty Becker <pbecker@umich.edu> wrote:
I second the motion.


At 04:41 PM 4/7/2011, you wrote:
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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
 
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