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Summary File – 1 Population Housing In cities and towns across the country, community leaders use census numbers to decide where to locate police and fire stations and other public services. The census helps local government and community organizations to locate facilities, such as day-care centers, senior citizen community centers, health-care clinics and even playgrounds
The Census Questionnaire • 100% data or short form • 7 questions • Sample data or long form • 34 topics
What Data Will Be Available? 100% data or short-form information • Redistricting Summary File • Summary File 1 • Summary File 2 Sample data or long-form information • Summary File 3 • Summary File 4
Summary File 1 (SF 1) • 100 percent or short-form data • Population • Housing • Counts, characteristics, and cross-tabulations • State files released on a flow basis • National files
Subject Content 100-Percent Data • 171 Population tables (P) at the block level • 56 Housing tables (H) at the block level • 59 Population tables (PCT) at the census tract level 286 Tables
Geographic Content • Individual files • 50 States • District of Columbia • Puerto Rico • United States
Statistical Areas • Census Tracts • Cover the entire U.S. • Census Blocks • Smallest geographic area
Geographic Levels - State Files State County County subdivision Place (or place part) Census tract Block group Block • State portion of American Indian and Alaska Native Area (with trust lands and with no trust lands) and Hawaiian home land
Geographic Levels - State Files Place Census tract Block group Congressional district (106th) Consolidate city Metropolitan area Zip Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA)
Geographic Levels - National Files United States Region Division State County County subdivision (10,000 or more population) Place (10,000 or more population) Metropolitan statistical area/Consolidated metropolitan statistical area (MSA/CMSA) Consolidated metropolitan statistical area/Primary metropolitan statistical area (CMSA/PMSA) Urban area (Final file only) Congressional district (106th Congress) American Indian and Alaska Native Area and Hawaiian home land ZIP Code tabulation area (ZCTA)
Race and Ethnic Detail Block Level • Total population • White • Black or African American • American Indian and Alaska Native • Asian • Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander • Some other race • Two or more races • Hispanic or Latino • White, not Hispanic or Latino
Examples of SF1 Tabulations • P1 Total population • P3 Race • P8 Hispanic or Latino • P12 Sex by Age (5-year groupings) • P14 Sex by Age for the population under 20 (single years of age) • P15 Households • P17 Average Household Size
Examples of SF1 Tabulations • P27 - P30 — Relationship by Household Type • P31 - P36 — Families • P37 - P38 — Group Quarters Population
Housing Subjects - Block Level • Presented to the block level • Total population • Repeated by Race and Hispanic or Latino
Examples of SF1 Tabulations Housing Tabulations Housing Units Occupancy Status Owner-/Renter-Occupied Tenure by Race, by Hispanic or Latino
SF1 RepeatingTabulations 5-year groupings
Population Subjects - Tract Level • Summarized to the census tract level • Detailed race • Detailed Hispanic/Latino • Group quarters population • Households
36 American Indian Categories Apache Delaware Potawatomi Blackfeet Houma Pueblo Cherokee Iroquois Puget Sound Salish Cheyenne Kiowa Seminole Chickasaw *Latin American Shoshone Chippewa Lumbee Sioux Choctaw Menominee Tohomo O’Odham Colville Navajo Ute Comanche Osage Yakama Cree Ottawa Yaqui Creek Paiute Yuman Crow Pima All other categories *Aztec, Inca, Mayan, etc.
5 Alaska Native Categories Alaska Athabaskan Aleut Eskimo Tlingit-Haida All other tribes
17 Detailed Asian Categories: Asian Indian Laotian Bangladeshi Malaysian Cambodian Pakistani Chinese, except Taiwanese Sri Lankan Filipino Taiwanese Hmong Thai Indonesian Vietnamese Japanese Other Asian Korean
12 Detailed Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Categories: Polynesian: Native Hawaiian Samoan Tongan Other Polynesian Micronesian: Guamanian or Chamorro Other Micronesian Melanesian Fijian Other Melanesian Other Pacific Islander
28 Hispanic or Latino Categories South American: Argentinean Bolivian Chilean Colombian Ecuadorian Paraguayan Peruvian Uruguayan Venezuelan Other South American Other Hispanic or Latino: Spaniard Spanish Spanish American Hispanic or Latino Mexican Puerto Rican Cuban Dominican Central American: Costa Rican Guatemalan Honduran Nicaraguan Panamanian Salvadoran Other Central American
Group Quarters Population • Institutionalized populations • Correctional institutions • Nursing homes • Other institutions • Noninstitutionalized populations • College dormitories • Military quarters • Other noninstitutional group quarters
Group Quarters Tabulations • By sex • By age • Under 18 years • 18-64 years • 65 years and over • By group quarters type • Correctional institution • Nursing homes • Other • By race and Hispanic/Latino
Data AccessibilityMedia Type: FTP vs AFF vs CD-ROM and DVD FTP AFF CD-ROM/DVD Difficulty High Low Low Cost No No Yes User Level High All All Speed Variable Variable High Connect IssuesPossible Possible Unlikely Download limits None 5 MB CD size Graphical User InterfaceNone Yes Yes
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) • File Transfer Protocol (FTP) • For downloading complete dataset files • Available at http://ftp2.census.gov
American FactFinder • www.census.gov(click on A or American FactFinder) • factfinder.census.gov
American FactFinder • Quick Tables • Geographic Comparison Tables • Detailed Tables
CD-ROM and DVD • Data provided on CD-ROM and DVD, with software to view, print, download items • SF-1 data publicly accessible on www.census.gov
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