some of you may find this of interest and use Nathan Erlbaum Associate Transportation Analyst New York State Department of Transportation Policy & Planning Division Office of Policy, Planning & Performance 50 Wolf Road, 6th Floor Albany, New York 12232 Tel: (518) 457-2967 Fax: (518) 457-4944 Email: nerlbaum(a)dot.state.ny.us Web: www.nysdot.gov ***************************************** IMPORTANT: This e-mail message and any attachments contain information intended for the exclusive use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is proprietary, privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any viewing, copying, disclosure or distribution of this information may be subject to legal restriction or sanction. The Missouri Census Data Center has created a web application that allows users to view profile reports based on 2006 American Community Survey data. These reports are modeled after the profile reports available on the Census Bureau's American Facffinder system, but differ from those reports in several important ways. For details see the "MCDC Highlights" at our home page - http://mcdc2/missouri.edu . In addition to providing these profiles we have stored all the data used to generate them in public datasets in our archive, thus giving users access (via our uexplore/dexter web tools) to the data in formats suitable for mapping, ranking, analyzing, etc . We have also downloaded and converted the underlying detailed (aka "base") tables from the 2006 ACS and users can access these data as well. We actually created some of the variables for our profiles based on these detailed tables. To see an example of the new profile (with 3 geographic areas displayed at once for comparison) see http://mcdc2.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/broker?_PROGRAM=websas.acsprofile.sas& _SERVICE=appdev&geoid1=16000US2915670&geoid2=05000US29019&geoid3=04000US 29 . This URL was accessed by using the geographic interface application referenced on the home page, and then selecting the 3 geographic areas as displayed. John Blodgett OSEDA - 626 Clark Hall University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 573 884-2727 blodgettj(a)missouri.edu