U.S. Census and Demographic Data

Summarizes demographics, housing, employment, transportation habits, retail sales, property values, and land use in metropolitan Chicago's 284 municipalities and 77 Community Areas. Raw data can be downloaded from the CMAP Data Hub.

The files have been saved as .zip files; to use them you must unzip them. You should end up with .shp, .shx, and .dbf files.

The unzipped files should run under ArcView or ArcGIS as well as under the several other mapping programs that can read ArcView shapefiles. If you are using a mapping program that requires its GIS data to be in a different format, you are going to have to translate these files into that format.

DataFerrett allows you to select a databasket full of variables and then recode those variables as you need.
You can then develop and customize tables. Selecting your results in your table you can create a chart or graph for a visual presentation into an html page.

Software with built-in mapping capabilities that create thematic maps for instant spatial display of census demographic information.

A reference guide for anyone interested in tailoring specific Census data to their needs. It includes computer coding (SAS v9.x) software for extracting targeted data from thousands of Census files, as well as primers on using online tools and mapping software for analyzing data. The book offers coverage of all aspects of census data including its historical significance, suggestions for parsing housing, occupation, transportation, economic, health, and other data from the census, and much more.

Provides information on:
- Interactive Internet Data Tools
- Census Bureau Research Data Centers
- Software to Download
- Direct File Access
and more

IPUMS is not a collection of compiled statistics; it is composed of microdata. Each record is a person, with all characteristics numerically coded. In most samples persons are organized into households, making it possible to study the characteristics of people in the context of their families or other co-residents. Because the data are individuals and not tables, researchers must use a statistical package to analyze the millions of records in the database. A data extraction system enables users to select only the samples and variables they require.

Kelvin Smith Library of Case Western Reserve University in partnership with the Federal Depository Library Program of the Government Printing Office and the US Census Bureau is the official mirror site for the United States 2000 Census ASCII text data files. This site serves as the official back-up site to the Census FTP files at www.census.gov According to the agreement between Case, the Government Printing Office and the Census Bureau, these files will be available in perpetuity, allowing permanent accessibility.

The NHGIS specifically provides spatially aggregated census data: data summarizing individuals within particular areas, such as states or counties, where the "individuals" might be persons, housing units, farms, libraries, newspapers or any other features that were at some point counted in a U.S. census. No individual-level records, with or without personally identifiable information, are included anywhere in the NHGIS.