# Presentation: 898806

## Get Ready New Yorkto UseCensus 2000 Data

## Census 2000Short Form and Long Form

**Short form**

**Long Form**

## Census 2000 Sampling Pattern

**Densely populated areas**

**Governmental units less than 2,500 persons**

**The U.S. as a whole**

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## Census 2000 Short Form Questionnaire

**7 Questions**
-   **Name**
-   **Sex**
-   **Age**
-   **Relationship**
-   **Hispanic Origin**
-   **Race**
-   **Owner/Renter Status**

## Race and Ethnicity Questions

**Changes**
**Hispanic origin asked first**
**Respondents may select one or more races**
**Asian and Pacific Islander category split:**
**Asian**
**Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander**

## New Race Categories

**White**
**Black or African American**
**American Indian and Alaska Native**
**Asian**
**Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander**
**Some Other Race**

## Race and Ethnicity Tabulation Categories

**126 Possible Race and Ethnic Categories**

## Race and Ethnicity Tabulation Categories

**Single-Race:**
**White alone**
**Black or African American alone**
**American Indian & Alaska Native alone**
**Asian alone**
**Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander alone**
**Some Other Race alone**
**Two or more races**

## Race and Ethnicity Tabulation Categories

**All-Inclusive Race:**
**White alone or in combination**
**Black or African American alone or in combination**
**American Indian & Alaska Native alone or in combination**
**Asian alone or in combination**
**Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander alone or in combination**
**Some Other Race alone or in combination**

## Census 2000 Long Form Questionnaire

**34 Subjects**
**Social Characteristics**
**Economic Characteristics**
**Housing Characteristics**

## Grandparents as Caregivers

**Presence of grandchildren **
**Responsibility for basic needs**
**How long responsible for needs**

**New Question**

## Disability

**Vision or hearing impairment**
**Mobility limitation**
**Condition that limits:**
**Learning or remembering**
**Getting around house**
**Getting around outside**
**Working**

**Revised Question**

## Census 2000 Questionnaire: User-Friendly Format

## Understanding Census Geography

## Census 2000 Data Products

**Increase Data Availability While Protecting Confidentiality**
**Provide Accessibility for All Users**
**Provide More Efficient Delivery of the Data**

**Goals**

## Census 2000 Data Products

**Increase Data Availability While Protecting Confidentiality**
**Use Internet technology**
**Provide Accessibility for All Users**
**Provide multiple levels of tabulations and files**
**Provide More Efficient Data Delivery**
**Provide appropriate choices of media**** **

**How will we meet these goals?**

## Confidentiality Protection

**Confidentiality Protection**

**Safeguards**
**No individual identifying information**

## Previous Census Data Products

**PRINTED**
**REPORTS**

**BASIC**
**TABLES**

**SINCE 1790**

_**Previous Census Data Products**_

## Previous Census Data Products

**PRINTED**
**REPORTS**

**BASIC**
**TABLES**

**SINCE 1790**

**DETAILED**
**MATRICES OF**
**AGGREGATED DATA**

**SUMMARY**
**TAPE**
**FILES**

**1970 -1990**

_**Previous Census Data Products**_

## Previous Census Data Products

**PRINTED**
**REPORTS**

**BASIC**
**TABLES**

**SINCE 1790**

**DETAILED**
**MATRICES OF**
**AGGREGATED DATA**

**SUMMARY**
**TAPE**
**FILES**

**1970 -1990**

**LIMITED MICRODATA FILES**

**PUBLIC USE**
**MICRODATA**
**(PUMS) SAMPLE FILES**

**1940**

_**Previous Census Data Products**_

## Census 2000 Data Products

**PRINTED**
**REPORTS**

**BASIC**
**TABLES**

**SINCE 1790**

**DETAILED**
**MATRICES OF**
**AGGREGATED DATA**

**SUMMARY**
**TAPE**
**FILES**

**1970 -1990**

**LIMITED MICRODATA FILES**

**PUBLIC USE**
**MICRODATA**
**(PUMS) SAMPLE FILES**

**1940**

**ACCESS TO FULL MICRODATA FILES**

**SPECIAL**
**TABULATIONS**

**ADVANCE**
**QUERY**
**ON THE INTERNET**

_**Census 2000 Data Products**_

## Census 2000 Product Tiers

**BASIC**
**TABLES**

**DETAILED**
**MATRICES OF**
**AGGREGATED DATA**

**LIMITED MICRODATA FILES**

**ACCESS TO FULL MICRODATA FILES**

**Through *****American FactFinder***

**TIER 1**

**TIER 2**

**TIER 3**

_**Census 2000 Product Tiers**_

## Tier 1 - Basic Tables

**Profiles and**** ****Printed Reports**
**Demographic Profile**
**Congressional District Profile**
**Printed Reports**

## Tier 1 - Basic Tables

**Profiles **
**Demographic Profile**
**100 percent and sample data**
**Lowest geography:  place level**
**Media: Internet, CD-ROM, paper**

**Congressional District Profile**

## Tier 1 - Basic Tables

**Printed Reports**
**National and States**
**Detailed characteristic for States, counties, places of 2,500+, and American Indian areas**
**Counts for counties and places**

## Tier 2 - Electronic Files & Quick Tables

**Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171)**
**Summary Files**
**Quick Tables (or Table Shells) and Geography Summary Tables**

## Tier 2 - Electronic Files & Quick Tables

**Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171)**
**Total and voting-age populations**
**Race and Hispanic origin **
**Lowest geography:  block level**
**Media: Internet, CD-ROM**

## Tier 2 - Electronic Files & Quick Tables

**Summary Files**
**100 Percent Summary File**
**Lowest geography:  block level**
**Media: Internet, CD-ROM**
**Sample Summary File**
**Lowest geography: block group level**
**Media: Internet, CD-ROM**

## Tier 2 - Electronic Files & Quick Tables

**Quick Tables (or Table Shells) and Geographic Summary Tables**
**User-selected table from 67 table shells**
**User-selected universe and geography**
**Medium: Internet**

## Tier 3 - User-Requested Tabulations

**Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Files**
**5 percent sample file**
**Media: Internet, CD-ROM**
**Full Microdata File Tabulations**
**User-determined tables**
**User-selected geography and universes**
**Confidentiality filters**
**Medium: Internet**

## Tier 3 - User-Requested Tabulations

**Special Tabulations**

## Release of Census 2000 Products

**December 31, 2000 -- Official State****	****counts**
**April 1, 2001-- Redistricting counts**
**2001-2002 -- All other data products**

## Cost of Census 2000   Products

**Most information free through the Internet**
**Charges for detailed custom tabulations**
**Charges for CD-ROMs, printed reports, print on-demand**

## Get Ready to UseCensus 2000 Data