More Census Resources from North Carolina and Beyond

 

Definitions and census data resources

 

• 1990 Census of Population & Housing Geography Terms. From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries

• Census Geographies. Just as counties nest within states nest within the country, the most commonly used census geographies nest within each other. From NCSU Libraries

• A Cure for the Common Codes: North Carolina. From the Missouri Census Data Center

• Demographic and statistical information. From the State Library of North Carolina

• Geographic Terms and Definitions. From the U.S. Census Bureau

• Historical Census Browser. Examine state and county topics for individual census years, examine state and county topics over time, and generate maps of selected data. From the University of Virginia Library

• INCITS 38:200x, [ANSI] Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of the United States. From the U.S. Census Bureau

• List of Counties in North Carolina. From Wikipedia

• NC Census Data. From the NC Office of State Budget and Management's State Data Center.

• Find Data. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research supplies data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata. The link above provides various ways of finding the data. From the University of Michigan

  
  

Other related links

 

• Data Masher. The Federal Government produces an immeasurable amount of data each day. DataMasher helps citizens create "mashups" to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare on important issues. Users can combine different data sets in interesting ways and create their own custom rankings of the states.

• GovPulse. The Federal Register is the official journal of the federal government of the United States. In it, you'll find any kind of proposal, notification, or solicitation for data that a federal agency puts out. It's the pulse of your government. For much of its existence the Federal Register has had no easily accessible form. govpulse seeks to change this and enable you to respond to your government. We give you a way to browse the Register (from 1994 on) and use filters to decide what is important to you.

• This We Know. Presents the information the U.S. government collects about every community. By publishing this data in an easy to understand and consistent manner, they seek to empower citizens to act on what's known.