Most of the data is free to download, but you do have to pay if you want a cdrom. GeoCommunity provides links to GIS Data Depot, GeoStore, a GIS Search Engine, Spatial News, Sofrware and Careers For our purposes this week we will be taking our spatial files from the data supplied by ESRI on your hard drives. ESRI 's web site also has alot of useful information. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by more than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government for public use. Hosted by the Congressional Information Service, this site indexes to federal government, state and local government, private industry and intergovernmental organization statistics.
Some abstracts link to full text statistical publications.
U.S. Census Bureau main site provides statistical tables from the 1990 Decennial Census and other Census Bureau publications. American Fact Finder U.S. Census Bureau 1990 Census Lookup develops customer designed tables from 1990 Decennial Census information at Census defined geographic levels. CenStats County and City Data Book provided by the Geospatial and Statistical Data Center, University of Virginia contains information from the latest Census. Historical United States Data Browser Select the variables and form your own tables using data from the 1790 to 1960 censuses. Geographic Names Information System from the US Geological Survey .