--- Begin Forwarded Message ---
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:08:10 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Mark Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 2000 census data by county
Sender: Mark Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
posted to govdoc-l, maps-l, and gis4lib
Can anyone please tell me the easiest, fewest step method, of
getting the following data from the 2000 Census (this is stuff
released with the P.L. 94-171 data last month):
Number of persons by race and hispanic origin by county
for the entire US. I would like to get it electronically and
will need to put it in a .dbf file for opening in a GIS program.
The patron seems to be interested in only 4 variables:
Black, Asian, American Indian, and Hispanic. See the New York
Times of April 1, p.20 in the national edition, the four little
maps, to see what she wants to get. (Interested in this for
putting in a publication, and doesn't want to pay licensing fees
to NYT.) (I'll have to talk to her regarding issues of marking
more than 1 racial category and that Hispanic is not a separate
race category, etc.)
At the Census site, it looks like you have to download a file
for each state. I'd like to get a file for all counties in
the country, if anyone knows where this exists.
>From American Factfinder, you just get county names ("Acme
County"), but not the FIPS code. There'll be some messing around
needed to use with the TIGER boundary files. There are also raw
data files from Census:
http://www2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/redistricting_file--pl_94-171/
but these are also by state, have quite a bit more than I need
in terms of variables and geographic levels, and will require a
*lot* of messing with.
I could even handle downloading 50 files if each is relatively
ready to go.
thanks,
Mark
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Mark Thomas / [log in to unmask] / 919-660-5853, fax:919-684-2855
Map and GIS Librarian / Economics Bibliographer
Public Documents and Maps Department
025 Perkins Library / Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0177
--- End Forwarded Message ---
|
