"Reporting Census 2000" and related resources

September 2000 View as JSON

Demographics & Census Technology Data & Databases

Guide for journalists on accessing and using Census 2000 data through shapefiles and TIGER files, with resources for downloading geographic data from the Census Bureau and ESRI.

"Reporting Census 2000": http://cronkite.pp.asu.edu/census

Shapefiles can be downloaded from the Census Bureau at www.census.gov/geo/www/cob or from ESRI's ArcData Online site at www.esri.com/dataonline.

You can practice with the "TIGER Reader" extension now by downloading the 1998 TIGER files for your state from www.census.gov/geo/tigerline/tl_1998.html.