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Once the file has been downloaded to your local PC, you can “unzip” the file by using the free software from either www.winzip.com or www.pkunzip.com.
Also available in the data file management tree is some technical documentation that can help you make sense of the raw data once it is “unzipped”. You can either view the data raw in the ASCII Comma Delimited format, or load it into a statistical package that you can use to manipulate the data such as Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet.
Now we will show you how to use the Census Bureau’s on-line data retrieval tool, American FactFinder, to find the data you need through a more user-friendly, web-based Graphical User Interface.
