HEADWATERS ECONOMICS GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: 
Dataset Name: 		US Census 2000
Dataset Type: 		ACCESS

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: 

DATA SOURCE(S):  		US Census 
Date of Original Source Data:	

DATASET EXTENT:  		US
 
TABLES CODES AND VALUES: 

ITEM		ITEM DESCRIPTION
fips		5 digit county fips 
sumlev	Kind of Geography (County, State, Place, County Subdivision etc...)
GeoComp	Usually "00" for total
		Additional fields are required to specify different geographies.
		see USGEO in Access database for additional coding information.  USGEO contains
		the variables necessary to filter the records and is then joined to the data tables 
		by LOGRECNO.  Note that there are different LOGRECNO values for the same geographies in 
		the different Summary Files (SF1 vs. SF3).

Summary Files	SF1 (Short Form 100% Data) and SF3 (Long Form Survey Data)		

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY: 
The dataset was downloaded directly from the US Census FTP site but can also be accessed using 
American Factfinder at http://factfinder.census.gov/

DATA SOURCES CONTACT(S): 
Name: 		Phone Directory at http://www.census.gov/contacts/www/c-census2000.html
Abbr. Name:		US Census
Address:		U.S. Census Bureau
			4700 Silver Hill Road
			Washington DC 20233		
Phone:   		Phone Directory at http://www.census.gov/contacts/www/c-census2000.html
Email:   		pio@census.gov
Web site: 	  	http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html
          
HEADWATERS ECONOMICS CONTACT: 
Name:			Headwaters Economics Geographic Data Library
Abbr. Name:		HEGDL
Address:		Headwaters Economics
                  P.O. Box 7059, 
			Bozeman MT 59771 
                        
Web site:		http://www.headwaterseconomics.org
Contact Person:  	Jeff van den Noort
Phone:   		(406)599-1653
Email:   		jeff at headwaterseconomics.org