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Re: st: Census/Demographics Datasets
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Census/Demographics Datasets
Date
Tue, 7 Jan 2014 16:49:58 +0000
This thread started with a question about "Census/demographics
datasets", unqualified. It does seem that (1) Michael Stewart was
really asking about the USA (2) many other people have similar
interests.
Fine, but please: it does no harm and it may help yet others if you
spell out whenever you are in fact referring to the USA, only. As the
FAQ advises
"Statalist is an international list. Please explain details that may
make sense only in your own corner of the world (even if it is the
United States)."
Nick
[email protected]
On 7 January 2014 16:37, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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