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Introduction.

The Demography HomePage is part of an initiative to identify, document, and provide simple access to demographic information concerning The United States of America. This part describes CIESIN's data holdings and related information. This HomePage consists of a series of cascading hypertext links providing access to national data resources, on-line supporting documentation (codebooks, data dictionaries, citations), and possibly extraction tools for data access, and you may connect to an anonymous ftp service for data file retrieval.

The information contained on this page is organized by major data resource. The source documents will be indexed, allowing for full and/or paragraph text searches. In addition, this page also provides connectivity to many world wide web and gophers sites listed and grouped in four distinct lists. By clicking on the highlighted (or underlined) sites you can connect to those services listed directly.

Clicking on this symbol [ icon for primary information source ] will reveal the primary information sources for the current viewing page. Finally, at the bottom of this home-page, "buttons" are provided for the users's convenience, for example; button #2 connects directly to CIESIN's Home Page "Information for a Changing World", or try button #1, CIESIN's navigational tool.


CIESIN's Data Resources

icon - click for primary information source PUBLIC USE MICRODATA SAMPLES
icon - click for primary information source CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY
icon - click for primary information source ECONOMIC CENSUS DATA
icon - click for primary information source COUNTY BUSINESS PATTERNS
icon - click for primary information source COUNTY CITY DATA BOOK
icon - click for primary information source STATISTICAL ABSTRACT SUPPLEMENT
icon - click for primary information source NATIONAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, and ENVIRONMENTAL DATABANK
icon - click for primary information source REGIONAL ECONOMIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
icon - click for primary information source ENHANCED COUNTY TO COUNTY MIGRATION 1985-1990
icon - click for primary information source TIGER 1992 BOUNDARIES
icon - click for primary information source STF3A STANDARD EXTRACTS


ftp icon Archive of Census Related Products at CIESIN ftp icon

If you would like to browse the census archive

CIESIN anonymous ftp:/pub/census

Off you go!
It currrently contains 17,000+ files spanning 4,000+ MB in compressed ascii files. A ton of README files are online. If you have problems accessing the FTP area, try regular ftp (ftp.ciesin.org) or email hmeij@ciesin.org.


Data Extraction Services

CIESIN Data Exploration Software

The CIESIN Data Exploration Software provides interactive browsing and analysis of the Public Use Microsample (PUMS) data sets from the U.S. 1980 and 1990 census, allowing users to analyse more than 2.6 million records in each data set. CIESIN Data Exploration Software is currently in beta testing.

BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

The Bureau has a "Data Extraction System" (DES) which can be reached via a telnet session (login as user "desuser", press the return key when prompted for a password). On-line, and accessible for extraction, are :

  • 1990 SIPP (Survey of Income and Program Participation), and
  • 1991 SIPP (Survey of Income and Program Participation), and
  • 1992 CPS (Current Popualtion Survey).

To learn more about this service read the document "About SIPP".

CENSUS DATA AT LAWRENCE BERKELEY LABORATORY

Nationwide data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 U.S. Censuses are available at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL). The LBL data archive is believed to be the most complete collection of Census data on the Internet.

To learn more about this service connect to Lawrence Berkeley Labs.


Simulations and Modeling


Innovative Approaches


WWW, Gopher and Other Information Sources.

The Australian National University has established a specialist WWW server. The Demography & Population Studies WWW Virtual Library (ANU,Australia) is a part of the ANU Social Sciences WWW Server (Coombsweb). Its function is to keep track of leading information facilities of value and/or significance to researchers in the field of demography.


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