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April 23, 2002
NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS
From: Kenneth
C. Meyer
Acting
Chief, Public Information Office
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.
