Lots of kids
The following is a recent discussion on CENSUS-L concerning a sliver of the PL94 data that could produce an interesting story:
I'm just starting to tackle a back-burner story from the PL94 data: Neighborhoods with lots of kids. I found one census tract in my area that had more kids than adults. Then I ran the numbers for the entire state, and found that this is the only census tract in all of Virginia with more kids than adults. My question: Has anyone else run across tracts in their area that have more kids than adults? That would be tracts with more than 50% people age 17 and under. I'm guessing this would be found in inner-city, public housing neighborhoods, which is where my special tract was.
A word of caution: make sure there aren't group homes in that tract. You might want to contact social service agencies (state and local) to find out for sure.
I'm working on a version of the where's the kids story, and two trends have come up. First, we're seeing significant flight away from our growing cities. Second, the kid concentrations are turning up in the same block groups where the Mormon temples or Indian reservation towns are.
The SF (short form) data that starts coming out this summer will be released to news media on an embargo basis (about 3-5 days).
Starting in early May, the Census Bureau planned to start releasing summary information from this short form data. These will be in one-page Excel spreadsheets or PDF images. Samples are available through Steve Doig's Reporting Census 2000 Web site, http://cronkite.pp.asu.edu/censusi (check under "What's New)