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Statistical Information Staff
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                      Detailed Demographic Data From 
                  Census 2000 Released for West Virginia
                                
  The U.S. Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released the first
detailed demographic data based on Census 2000 questions asked of all
people and about every housing unit in the state of West Virginia.

  The electronic file (Summary File 1) includes statistical data on the
following population items: sex, age, race, Hispanic or Latino origin,
household relationship, and household and family characteristics. Housing
items include occupancy status and tenure (whether the unit is owner- or
renter-occupied).

  Summary File 1 contains 286 tables for states, counties, county
subdivisions, places, census tracts, ZIP code tabulation areas, as well as
congressional districts for the 106th Congress and, where applicable,
American Indian and Alaska Native areas and Hawaiian home lands. For most
subjects, data for census block groups and blocks also are shown.
                                
  As each state is released, the set of compressed ASCII files will be
made available for download from the Census Bureau's new search-and-retrieval
database, American FactFinder http://factfinder.census.gov and
via its FTP server http://www2.census.gov/census_2000/.
At the same time, these files will be available for purchase from the
Census Bureau's Customer Services Center on recordable CD-ROMs that will
not have software. In addition, the Census Bureau plans to subsequently
release a value-added CD-ROM product with a proprietary data format and
software. It, too, may be purchased from Customer Services. When all
states have been released, the Census Bureau will put the entire SF1 for
all states on one or two DVDs.

  A weekly release schedule will be posted on a special page on the Census
Bureau's Web site at http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/sumfile1.html.
For information about ordering Census 2000 products, contact Customer
Services on 301-763-INFO(4636) or e-mail webmaster@census.gov.
 

File Transfer Protocol (FTP): West Virginia -X-


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