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Useful files to prepare summer 2002 SF3 Census release

A link to documentation, including file and field names, from a Census Bureau's FTP server: ftp://ftp2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/Summary_File_3/

Eventually, the Census Bureau will provide step-by-step instructions for moving the data and the structure into a database format at: www.census.gov/support/SF3ASCII.html

Structure files in Access97 and other formats will be available at: www.census.gov/support/2000/SF3/

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Steve Doig's Census page for journalists

Census bureau Census 2000 information page

American FactFinder
Download 2000 tabulated data here.

Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis

United States Historical Data Browser
Pull county-level data going back to the first decennial census in 1790.

U.S. Census Bureau, 1980 & 1990 data
Purchase 1980 and 1990 data in bulk.

GeoLytics Inc.
Purchase the CensusCD

National Archives
Purchase 1940 through 1970 tract-level data.

Center for International Earth Science Network
Population data from around the world