This is an e-mail conversation from the Investigative Reporters and Editors listserv, regarding PUMS delivery dates. This exchange was between Mr Overberg of USA Today and Mr Clemings of the Fresno Bee. Also, the IRE is sponsoring a Census 2000 workshop in Columbia, Missouri on January 11-12 (the weekend before TRB annual meeting). Very interesting agenda! http://www.2000census.org/censuscolumbia.html http://www.2000census.org/ Chuck Purvis, MTC ************************************************************************************************************************** I hear it's been delayed until March, with 5% state files still due "summer 2003." The newest TIGER files contains PUMA/SuperPUMA boundaries: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tigerua/ua_tgr2k.html Also, boundary files for both 1% and 5% PUMS files can be downloaded as shapefiles: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/pu_metadata.html State data centers also should have maps since they helped define their PUMAs and Super PUMAs. And here let me plug the IRE/NICAR Census workshop Jan. 11-12 in Columbia, Missouri, where Steve Doig and I will take intermediate/advanced folks thru, among other things, the mysteries of PUMS and great journalism you can do from it. At the same time, we'll have a separate workshop for beginners -- guaranteed PUMS-free but loaded with basics about how to get started using census data and spreading it across the newsroom. http://www.2000census.org/censuscolumbia.html Paul Overberg USA TODAY -----Original Message----- From: Russell Clemings [mailto:Clemings@cris.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 6:04 PM To: census-l(a)nicar.org Subject: whither PUMS http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/c2kproducts.html That's the C2K schedule ... it says "December 2002" for the 1% PUMS sample, covering "Super-PUMAs" of 400,000 or more people. Has anyone heard more?