April 23, 2002

NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS

From:            Kenneth C. Meyer
                     Acting Chief, Public Information Office

Subject:        Policy on Disseminating Census 2000 Demographic Profiles (DP1-4) Containing 100-percent and Sample Data to the Media

The following are the broad outlines of the Census Bureau's plans for disseminating the Census 2000 demographic profiles containing 100-percent and sample data from early May to early June, 2002.

Embargoed data/product announcement general guidance:
The demographic profiles will be available to bona fide media organizations on a three work-day embargo period beginning in early May.

As was the case with the dissemination of Summary File 2, a product announcement will be distributed when the data are loaded on the Public Information Office's Internet embargo page <http://www.census.gov/embargo/www/dcmd/embargo_profiles.html>. To link to the FTP server where the data will reside, bona fide media should enter the Internet embargo page and click on "Demographic Profiles: Census 2000." User ID and password for FTP access remain the same as with previous releases. They are posted on the embargoed news release page. These data will be available in ASCII and PDF file formats.

The Public Information Office plans to hold 14 news briefings across the country over a five-week period. We will provide more information on these briefings soon.

Brief description of data products:
There are four profile tables that we will provide in this data release. The first profile table, DP-1, contains 100-percent data on population and housing released last year. Demographic profile tables, DP-2, DP-3 and DP-4 contain selected social, economic and housing characteristics based on information collected on the Census 2000 long-form questionnaire.

DP2 contains data for the following selected social characteristics:

school enrollment	educational attainment	marital status
grandparents as caregivers	veterans status	disability status
residence in 1995	nativity and place of birth	foreign born
language spoken at home	ancestry

DP3 contains data for the following selected economic characteristics:

employment status	commuting to work	occupation
industry	class of worker	family income
poverty status

DP4 contains data for the following selected housing characteristics:

units in structure	year structure built	number of rooms
year householder moved into	number of vehicles	house heating fuel
plumbing/kitchen facilities	occupants per room	housing value
mortgage status and owner costs	owner costs as a percent of household income	telephone service
gross rent as a percent of household income	gross rent

Demographic Profile data will be provided for the following geographic areas:

National File -	United States
	Region
	Division
	Metropolitan Statistical Area/Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area
	Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area
	American Indian Area/Alaska Native Area/Hawaiian Home Land
	State
	Congressional District (106th)
State Files -	State
	County
	County subdivision
	Place
	Consolidated City
	Metropolitan Statistical Area/Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area
	Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area
	American Indian Area/Alaska Native Area/Hawaiian Home Land
	Alaska Native Regional Corporation
	Congressional District (106th)

Where to find this information:
A listing of states that have been released and those scheduled for release, along with links to the corresponding product announcements and supporting data files, can be found on the Web at <http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/demoprofile.html>. In addition, links to all Census 2000 products can be found on the American FactFinder main page at <http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet>.

A draft copy of the demographic profile technical documentation is attached. A copy of the final technical documentation will be forwarded soon.

For more information, contact Mark Tolbert in the Census Bureau's Public Information Office on (301) 457-3691. You may also contact Kim Crews on (301) 457-8565.