Census
2000
This website is intended
to facilitate access to Census 2000 data and documentation as
soon as it is released by the Census Bureau, provide preliminary
results analyzed by the U.S. Census Bureau and New York State
Data Center, and finally to be a clearinghouse for Census 2000
information including, pertinent Census Bureau news and announcements,
updates on topics concerning Census 2000 data access and use,
and anticipated release dates of data and documentation.
CSDA is collaborating with the Lewis
Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research,
which has developed an extensive set of census reports and webpages
presenting analyses of census data for specific cities and metropolitan
areas. Click here [add link to Albany.edu/mumford/census] to
see the Mumford Center's census materials.
ACS Initiative: Using ACS Data to Study
Population Change
The American Community
Survey (ACS) is being implemented by the Bureau of the Census
to replace the long-form decennial census with comparable information
that will be updated annually and is sure to become a crucial
resource for population researchers. ACS data are already being
collected and the survey is projected to be in full-production
in 2004. After 2010, data down to the tract and block-group
level will be available annually instead of once a decade. Depending
on population size, weighted 2,3, or 5 year averages will be
presented. Data products from the ACS will include numerous
summary tables, including many repeated for multiple race/ethnic
groups, as well as a PUMS file, with PUMA identified. Our plans
for this initiative are still evolving but we have formulated
a basic outline of our intended project, modeled in part on
the products that were part of the Census 2000 project. Some
flexibility is needed since we have not yet begun to work with
the ACS data. Further, the Census Bureau itself is still revising
its plans for exactly which products they will produce and how
often.
CSDA plans to work together with the
Mumford Center to help desiminate data and reports based on
the ACS, beginning with the 2002 data that are already available.
Our ACS initiative will help users access and understand the
data, particularly the moving averages and the confidence intervals
which will be presented for each number. We will also present
updated figures on race/ethnic and immigrant populations as
they become available for different levels of geography, especially
metropolitan areas.
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