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Re: st: Census/Demographics Datasets
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Re: st: Census/Demographics Datasets
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Tue, 7 Jan 2014 11:37:43 -0500
Census data. Geolytics is a favorite quick/easy source of census data
- decades and same variables across decades (reliability is always a
question). Many universities own this data. Frank
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Rossen, Lauren M. (CDC/OSELS/NCHS)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>--
>>Robert O'Reilly, Ph.D.
>>Electronic Data Center
>>Woodruff Library
>>Emory University
>>540 Asbury Circle
>>Atlanta, GA 30322
>>P: (404) 727-6129
>>F: (404) 727-0053
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