Internet Site Opened To Public Access

Tipsheet - March 18, 1994 TP94-05

The Census Bureau recently opened its Internet site to public access. News organizations can access Census Bureau news releases and tipsheets on the date of release via the Census Bureau’s Internet node.

In addition to news information and various statistics, the site carries other information about the organization, policies, and statistical programs of the Census Bureau. For example, you will currently find:

Government finances data
Research papers from the Center for Economic Studies
Statistical software from the International Statistical Programs Center
New product advisories from the Data User Services
Statistical Briefs

The “We the American” series from the 1990 census Menu-Driven software to extract information form large, complex data sets, such as the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the Current Population Survey (CPS) pointers to Internet sites carrying census data.

To log on to the Census Bureau’s Internet site, you may use 3 different methods. At your Internet prompt, type: gopher gopher.census.gov to access the text based system. To access the Windows-based “Mosaic” system, type: mosaic www.census.gov. This site has graphics as well as text. To download files via anonymous file transfer, type: ftp://ftp.census.gov/

The Census Bureau’s Internet site will be in a prototype mode for the next six months. It will be refined and improved based upon user comments.