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Subject: RE: The where's (& whys) of US Census population data?
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 16:24:26 +0000
From: Weessies, Kathleen <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
Catching which cities fall within which counties is the tricky wrinkle
in this. I find college students often wanting this kind of nesting
information, so they can compare the various suburbs against its city
center, for instance, on various social demographics. Most census sites
require you to already know which communities fall within which county
or SMA.
Factfinder 2 does allow "all county subdivisions within a county", but
only from about Census 2000 SF3 and SF4 and going forward. The old
Factfinder seems to be gone -- so I'm not sure how to get Census 2000
SF1 and SF2 data. I visit this question once per semester and re-learn
the constantly changing landscape.
For older censuses, it is difficult to avoid going back to those old
dusty books -- they present the communities in alphabetical order
within each SMA.
My coworker Hui Hua Chua made this guide on Census Geography:
http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/content.php?pid=56418&sid=413332
And I made this guide to locating census tract data:
http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/tracts
Kathleen Weessies
Geosciences Librarian
Head, Map Library
Coordinator, Collaborative Technology Labs
Michigan State University Main Library
366 W. Circle Drive W308
East Lansing, MI 48824
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Office phone 517-884-0849
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Subject: The where's (& whys) of US Census population data?
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Subject: The where's (& whys) of US Census population data?
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 04:47:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Beth Arthur <[log in to unmask]>
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To: Air Photo GIS Forum - Map LibrarianshipMaps <[log in to unmask]>
Greetings,
I'm a beginning GIS student who seeks your help for a map project (You
may have met me a few summers ago at the ALA MAGERT meetings in Chicago).
Are there libguides that clarify the 2010 Census' geographic location
types (county, urbanized area, place level etc.) and which 2010 Census
file contains them (Demographic Profile vs. Summary File 1?)?
I want to download basic population count by county for each U.S. state,
and, if possible, the population for the towns and cities within those
counties.
- Is FTPing the way to best download this data or using the filtering
mechanisms on the American Fact Finder site?
- Should I contact the email addresses on the Census site or simply call
the contact phone number?
Thanks for all pointers.
~ Beth Arthur
NEIU graduate student
Chicago, IL
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