Introduction to 2000 Census 2000 Data Products Issued July 2000 MSO/00-CDP Census 2000 is the largest peacetime effort in the history of the United States. Information about the 118 million housing units and 275 million Highlights people across the United States will be available in a variety of formats and media, including the Internet, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and printed reports. This Census of brochure provides a brief introduction to the information available from Population and Census 2000, Census 2000 geography, maps, and data products. Visit our Web site at http://www.census.gov for more information. Housing Topics, p. 1. Includes 100-percent and sample charac- teristics. Information Available From the 22nd Census Census 2000 of Population and Housing Geographic Areas, p. 2. 100-percent characteristics: A limited number of questions are asked of Understanding every person and housing unit in the United States. Information is available on: the relationships among U.S. Household relationship Race Census Bureau Sex Tenure (whether the home is owned or rented) geographic entities. Age Vacancy characteristics Hispanic or Latino origin Census 2000 Data Products Sample characteristics: Additional questions are asked of a sample Available in Many (generally 1-in-6) of persons and housing units. Data are provided on: Forms, p. 3. Internet access Population Housing CD-ROM, DVD Marital status Value of home or monthly rent paid Printed reports Place of birth, citizenship, and Units in structure year of entry Year structure built Maps and School enrollment and Number of rooms and number Geographic educational attainment of bedrooms Products, p. 4. Ancestry Year moved into residence Internet access Migration (residence in 1995) Plumbing and kitchen facilities CD-ROM, DVD Language spoken at home and Telephone service Print-on-demand ability to speak English Vehicles available Veteran status Heating fuel Disability Farm residence Grandparents as caregivers Utilities, mortgage, taxes, Labor force status insurance, and fuel costs Place of work and journey to work Occupation, industry, and class of worker Work status in 1999 Income in 1999

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U.S. Census Bureau U S C E N S U S B U R E A U 1 Helping You Make Informed Decisions in New England, where cities and Census Small-Area Geography towns are the basic geographic units. Understanding the Relationships Among U.S. Census Bureau Geographic Entities Minor Civil Divisions (MCDs)/ (MCD) or Census Divisions (CCDs). County (CCD) Place MCDs are legally defined county subdivisions such as towns and townships. In 21 states where MCDs do not exist or are not adequate for reporting subcounty statistics, the Census Bureau, in cooperation with state and local officials, delineates county subdivisions known as Census County Divisions.

Places. Incorporated places are concentrations of population such as cities, that have legally prescribed boundaries, powers, and functions. Other population centers without legally defined corporate limits or corporate powers are defined by the Census Bureau in cooperation with Block Block Group state officials and local data users. These are called Census-Designated Places and are identified in data Census 2000 Bureau tabulates data. Approxi- tables by the acronym CDP following mately 10 million blocks are identi- the place name. Geographic Areas fied in Census 2000. American Indian/Alaska Native States and equivalent areas. areas and Hawaiian home lands. Block groups (BGs). Block groups Besides the 50 states, the Census These areas include the legal feder- are a collection of census blocks Bureau treats the District of Colum- ally recognized American Indian within a census tract, sharing the bia, , and the Island Areas reservations, off-reservation trust same first digit of their four-digit (the U.S. Virgin Islands, , land entities, tribal subdivisions, identifying numbers. , and the Northern Alaska Native Regional Corporations, Mariana Islands) as state equivalents and Hawaiian home lands. These Census tracts. These small sta- for statistical presentation. areas also include the tribal-desig- tistical subdivisions (averaging about nated statistical areas, Oklahoma 4,000 persons) of counties generally Urban areas. Urban areas consist tribal statistical areas, and Alaska have stable boundaries and, when of urbanized areas (UAs) and other Native village statistical areas that first established, were designed to urban entities. A UA consists of are defined for federally recognized have relatively homogeneous densely settled territory with a tribes without a legal land base. The demographic characteristics. population of 50,000 or more in- boundaries of federally recognized habitants. Other urban areas have American Indian and Alaska Native Counties and equivalent areas. from 2,500 to 49,999 population. areas are provided by the tribal These are the primary divisions of governments. The State of Hawaii most states, Puerto Rico, and the Voting districts. Voting districts Department of Hawaiian Home Lands Island Areas. They include counties represent areas created for the pur- provides the boundaries for Hawaiian in 48 states; parishes in Louisiana; pose of conducting elections. They home lands. The boundaries of boroughs and census areas in include election districts, precincts, state-recognized American Indian Alaska; municipios in Puerto Rico; wards, polling areas, and other types reservations and state-designated independent cities in Maryland, of electoral units submitted to the American Indian statistical areas (for Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia; and Census Bureau by states participating state-recognized tribes without a other entities in the Island Areas. in the Redistricting Data Program. reservation) are provided by a state ZIP Code Tabulation Area liaison designated by the state's Metropolitan areas (MAs). An (ZCTA™). ZCTAs are approximate governor. MA consists of a large population nucleus of 50,000 population or representations of five- or three-digit Blocks. Generally bounded by greater, together with adjacent U.S. Postal Service ZIP Code service streets, legal boundaries, and other communities having a high degree areas. ZCTAs are composed of census features, a block is the smallest geo- of social and economic integration blocks and represent the majority ZIP graphic unit for which the Census with that core. Metropolitan areas Code for within a census comprise at least one county, except block.

2 U.S. Census Bureau Census 2000 Data Census 2000 Redistricting Summary File 2 (SF 2) will also Products Available (Public Law 94-171) Summary contain 100-percent population and File. The first Census 2000 data housing characteristics, but the in Many Forms files to be released will be the tables in this file will be iterated for Census 2000 Data Products information required for local a selected list of detailed race and redistricting. The data will include Hispanic- or Latino-origin groups, as The decennial census yields a tabulations by 63 race categories, well as American Indian and Alaska wealth of data, which have virtually cross-tabulated by “not Hispanic or Native tribes. For this file, the lowest unlimited applications. A complete Latino” for the total population and level of geography will be the census line of Census 2000 data products the population 18 years old and tract, and there will be a population- will soon be available to meet these over. Detailed tabulations will pre- size threshold before information is requirements. sent data down to the block level, shown for a particular group. Various Detailed results of Census 2000 will and will be available through the Quick Tables and Geographic Com- be contained in a series of five files Internet and through two CD-ROM parison Tables will be derived from that you can access through the series (state and national files). Summary File 2. Internet and on CD-ROM or DVD. One Quick Table and a Geographic Several related electronic and print Comparison Table will be based on Planned release date: products include Demographic this redistricting file. October 2001-July 2002 Profiles of most geographic areas; Quick Tables that allow users to Note: The Public Law 94-171 Summary File 3 (SF 3) will be choose from among approximately numbers are expected to reflect the first release of the information 50 table shells, then specify the corrections for possible overcounts collected on a sample basis. Data geographic area and the universe or and undercounts using measure- will be provided down to the block population subgroup (such as the ments from the Accuracy and group for many tabulations but only African American or the Hispanic Coverage Evaluation survey. To ful- down to the census tract for others. population); and approximately 30 fill the requirements of Public Law SF 3 will also include data by ZIP Geographic Comparison Tables 105-119 (enacted in 1997), the Code Tabulation Area and Congres- that will enable users to compare Census Bureau also must make sional District. Related products key data items across geographic publicly available a second version include a three-page profile report, areas. In addition, there will be of these data that does not include various Quick Tables and Geographic three series of reports available the statistical corrections for Comparison Tables, and a printed in print and in Portable Document overcounts and undercounts mea- report series, developed from the Format (PDF) on the Internet. sured in the Accuracy and Coverage sample data. Evaluation. Internet. For easy access to all Planned release date: Census 2000 information, click Planned release date: August-December 2002 on American FactFinder™ on the March 2001 Census Bureau’s home page Summary File 4 (SF 4) will include (www.census.gov). Generally, most Summary File 1 (SF 1) presents tabulations of the population and data products will be released first counts and basic cross-tabulations housing data collected from a on the Internet, followed by subse- of information collected from all sample of the population. Just as in quent releases in other formats. people and housing units. This Summary File 2, the tables on SF 4 CD-ROM and DVD. Most Census information includes age, sex, race, will be iterated for a selected list of 2000 tabulations and maps will be Hispanic or Latino origin, household race and Hispanic- or Latino-origin available on CD-ROMs and/or DVDs. relationship, and whether the groups, for American Indian and Viewing software will be included. residence is owned or rented. Data Alaska Native tribes, as well as for CD-ROMs may be ordered by phone will be available down to the block ancestry groups. Various Quick through the Census Bureau’s level for many tabulations, but only Tables and Geographic Comparison Customer Services Center on to the census-tract level for others. Tables will be derived from Summary 301-457-4100, or by clicking on Summaries will also be included File 4. Catalog from the Census Bureau’s for other geographic areas such as home page. ZCTAs and Congressional Districts. Planned release date: December 2002-March 2003 Printed reports will be sold Related products include Demo- through the U.S. Government graphic Profiles that will give a Microdata Printing Office. Much of the snapshot of the geographic area; information in these series will be Quick Tables; Geographic Compari- Microdata allow users to prepare available earlier in other data son Tables, and the first of the their own customized tabulations products. printed report series. (See below.) and cross tabulations of most The following release dates are population and housing subjects, preliminary and may be revised later. Planned release date: using specially prepared microdata June 2001-June 2002 files. These files are the actual

U.S. Census Bureau 3 responses to census questionnaires, Population and Housing Unit Reference maps. This series but with names or addresses Totals (PHC-3). This publication of tabulation reference map types removed and the geography suffi- includes population and housing unit shows the boundaries for tabula- ciently broad to protect confiden- totals for Census 2000 as well as the tions areas including: states, coun- tiality. Two ways to access 1990 and 1980 censuses. Informa- ties, American Indian reservations, microdata will be available. tion on area measurements and county subdivisions (MCDs/CCDs) population density will be included. incorporated places, and Census- Public Use Microdata Sample This series will include one printed Designated Places. This series (PUMS) Files. Two PUMS files are report for each state plus a national includes the state and county planned for release on CD-ROM: a report; it will also be available on the subdivision outline maps, urbanized 5-percent and a 1-percent sample. Internet. area maps, and metropolitan area maps. These maps vary in size from Planned release date: Planned release date: 2003 wall to page size. 1-percent file: April-July 2002 5-percent file: August-Dec. 2002 Maps and Geographic Planned release date: 2001-2003 Advance Query Function. Users Products Generalized boundary files. of the American FactFinder™ will be These files are designed for use in A variety of maps, boundary files, able to prepare tabulations online, a geographic information system and other geographic products will using the full database of all indi- (GIS) or similar computer mapping be available to help users locate and vidual responses, subject to restric- software. Boundary files are avail- identify geographic areas. These tions and filters required to protect able for most levels of census products will be available in various the confidentiality of individual geography. media such as the Internet, CD-ROM, responses. DVD, and, in the case of maps, as Planned release date: 2001-2002 Printed Reports print-on-demand products. Statistical maps. Census 2000 TIGER/Line® files. These files There will be three series of printed data will be displayed on colorful contain geographic boundaries and reports with one report per state maps on such topics as population codes, streets, ranges, and and a national summary volume. density and population distribution. coordinates for use with geographic Summary Population and information systems for mapping Planned release date: 2001-2003 Housing Characteristics (PHC-1). and other applications. This series, containing information collected on a 100-percent basis, Planned release date: 2001 For More Information About will present information for states, Census 2000 and Census 2000 maps. These maps counties, places, and other areas. Data Products: show the boundaries, names, and Comparable to the 1990 CPH-1 codes for American Indian/Alaska report, Summary Population and Visit the Census Bureau's Internet Native areas, and Hawaiian home Housing Characteristics, it will also site at http://www.census.gov or lands, states, counties, county call our Customer Services Center be available on the Internet. subdivisions, places, census tracts, at 301-457-4100. Planned release date: 2002 and census blocks. This map series Visit your local library. Many will also be produced by specified major university and public Summary Social, Economic, and governmental units (e.g., American libraries participate in the Federal Depository Library Program and Housing Characteristics (PHC-2). Indian and Alaska Native areas, and Hawaiian home lands, counties, receive copies of Census Bureau This publication will include informa- reports and CD-ROMs. tion on the sample population and incorporated places, and functioning minor civil divisions). Call or visit one of 1,800 state housing subjects for the same and local planning groups, geographic areas and information Planned release date: 2001 libraries, chambers of commerce, and will be comparable to the 1990 and others that participate in a CPH-5 census report series, Sum- Census Bureau data center Census tract outline maps. These mary Social, Economic, and Housing program. For a complete list see: county maps show the boundaries Characteristics (1990 CPH-5). It will http://www.census.gov/clo. and numbers of census tracts and also be available on the Internet. Call or visit a Census Bureau names of features underlying the Regional Office. For the address Planned release date: 2003 boundaries. They also show the and phone number of the regional boundaries, names, and codes for office near you, visit: American Indian and Alaska Native www.census.gov/field/www/. areas, counties, county subdivisions, and places.

Planned release date: 2001

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