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Re: st: Census/Demographics Datasets
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"Rossen, Lauren M. (CDC/OSELS/NCHS)" <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Census/Demographics Datasets
Date
Tue, 7 Jan 2014 15:18:01 +0000
Hi all,
Also FYI, there is a tool called 'data ferret' that you can use to download data at various levels
of geography from the Decennial Census, ACS, and other surveys: http://dataferrett.census.gov/
I believe you can download the data as a Stata dataset or in other formats.
Hope that's helpful.
Lauren
******************
Lauren M. Rossen, PhD, MS
Office of Analysis and Epidemiology
National Center for Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
>On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Michael Stewart
><[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> It worked!!.
>> Thank you very much for your time. Obviously, I couldnt have written
>> that code!.
>> I never expected that stata could copy/download and unzip too .
>> I think, I can take it from here. Thank you again for your time.
>
>
>While the interface may not well-suited for your purposes, there is
>the National Historical Geographic Information System project at the
>University of Minnesota, which will let you create extracts of data
>from the Decennial Census, the American Community Survey, and other
>Census Bureau data collections. When you are creating the extracts
> (which you can filter by combinations of time period, geographic
>level, data source, and topic), you have the option of getting the
>data in either delimited form or fixed-width form with separate syntax
>files for importing the data into SAS, SPSS, or Stata. The NHGIS is
>freely available upon registration, and may be easier to work with
>than the files that the Census Bureau provides.
>>
>There is also Social Explorer, which is a subscription-only interface
>for accessing Census data and which will also export data into
>Stata-friendly formats, and which is also much easier to use than is
>the American FactFinder (although it doesn't include all the data
>accessible in the FactFinder such as the Economic Census).
>
>FYI, etc.
>
>
>
>
>Rob
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