Population Resources and Data

Related Resource Pages:

• MALTHUS, Thomas Robert (1766-1834)
• Princeton Population Index || Princeton Population Index (Mirror)

• GEOSPATIAL AND STATISTICAL DATA CENTER (University of Virginia - Comprehensive data bases, direct access down to county level, incl. population data; County Business Patterns etc.)
• Mining Company's Population Resource Site
• Population Sites [acdemic, professional, governmental]
• CSSCR Data Resources
• Integrated Public Use Microdata Sample (IPUMS) Social History Research Lab of the University of Minnesota (U.S.Population data)
• Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology (CSDE, University of Washington)
  http://csde.washington.edu/lib/popsites.html
• Northwest Demographic and Economic Data
• Demographics (University of Buffalo, Arch+Planning)
• Population sites (UW Dept. of Sociology)
• World Population: A Guide to WWW [by Richard Jensen April 2, 1999 prepared for Regents College, New York]
• Population Links (General Web Resources For Geographic Population Studies, York University) || Mirror Site
• U.S.Census Bureau
  • Select state (US Map)
  • Population Estimates and Projections Methodology

• The Population Reference Bureau is pleased to announce that it has launched its home page on the World Wide Web. At this Web site we have offered a number of on-line resources, including Population Today (PRB's newsmonthly), a guide to on-line population-related information resources (under "Media Guide"), Population Jeopardy, and a soon-to-be-launched queriable 1995 World Population Data Sheet. The Web site is designed for the low-end user, particularly in developing countries, so it is not loaded with large graphics files. Despite its low tech look, we expect that the information provided will be very useful to those with an interest in population issues.

• Announcing Geocorr || or click here || We are pleased to announce the availability of Geocorr, Geographic Correspondence Engine.

  The MABLE / Geocorr geographic correspondence engine generates files and/or reports showing relationships between a wide variety of geographic coverages for the United States. This application allows you to specify the geographic scope of the correspondence files ( typically one or more complete states, but with the ability to specify counties, cities or metropolitan areas within states) and the geographic coverages to be correlated. Coverages available for correlation include all geographic units reported in the 1990 census Summary Tape Files, and several special "extension coverages", including congressional districts for the 103rd Congress and PUMAs used in the 1990 Pulic Use Microdata Samples (PUMS). Population, housing unit counts or land area can be used as the weighting variable to determine the proportion of correlation between units of the source geographic area codes and units of the target geographic area codes, or geocodes.

• U.S.Population Census ("Pop Clock" for US & World)

• The Demographic Data Viewer is "an interactive mapping tool accessible via WWW browsers. This mapping tool enables users to to select geographic areas, specify variables to map, specify map outlay parameters and color assignments. A map image is created on the fly for each query and a descriptive summary statistics report is provided along with the image. The tool can also be used to browse demographic data in tabular format. All products may be downloaded via the browsers upon creation."

  "Boundary data in DDViewer were derived from the U.S. Bureau of the Census TIGER 1992 database. Boundaries are available for counties, county subdivisions/minor civil divisions, census tracts, and blockgroups. One or more counties (or entire states) may be defined as the area of interest. About 225 demographic variables are available for mapping. These were derived from the U.S. Bureau of the Census STF3A 1990 files. A recoding option is provided enabling the creation of user defined variables."

• Tailor-made data sets, from the 1950-1990 censuses, can be used in a variety of social science classes dealing with race-ethnicity, immigration, gender studies, marriage, households and poverty, US income inequality, the elderly, etc. SSDAN staff will help instructors tailor exercises for their own classes, and make them available to other professors in the network.
  WEB ACCESS. The project maintains a "Homepage" http://www.psc.lsa.umich.edu/SSDAN/ which describes the project, available data sets and exercises, and permits downloading of census data sets, that can be accessed with Chipendale software in both IBM and MAC formats. Request a "startup" package, free of charge, by registering thru the homepage, or make an email request to William.Frey@umich.edu.

• The Best 100 Sources of Marketing Information American Demographics, January 1995.

• Center for Demography, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison CDE Information Services are pleased to announce their respective world wide web pages accessible from the CDE home page (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/). The focus of the pages is on demographic/population information that has been selected and evaluated for relevance, accuracy and quality.
  • The Data Library(http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/datalib/) has links to a list of their holdings, local and remote sources of data, U.S. federal agencies that produce data, and upcoming conference announcements.

  • The Print/Virtual Library (http://www.library.wisc.edu/) page has links to a variety of Internet search tools, local and remote library and research related resources, selected population related sites, government agencies, as well as online journals and newsletters, government publications and demographic working papers. The page also contains information on the library's services, collections, and policies.

• Demographics Journal: Population Trends

• Demography & Population Studies. This Australian document (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ResFacilities/DemographyPage.html) keeps track of leading information facilities of value and/or significance to researchers in the field of demography. Currently this page contains 140 links to demographic information facilities world-wide.

• The European Society of Population Economics (ESPE) "You will find information on the society, news on the annual congress, and as a special feature we will start a collection of teaching tools for population economics. You are cordially invited to contribute to this project by sharing your experience in teaching population economics with others."

• Cairo Conference Home Page
  
• World Health Organization
  
• World Population Council
  
• Beijing '95
  
• Demography and Population Studies
  

Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 10:18:23 -0800 (PST)
Subject: GeogD: Re: Complete U.S. Census Reference on a Single CD-ROM

data!

This message is to announce that CensusCD is now available at CSSCR. 
CensusCD is the only PC database that contains the latest entire US Census
(3500+ variables for 16 levels of geography, from block group level up) on
one CD-ROM.  With an easy-to-use windows interface, you have access to
over 1.3 billion summary counts from 67 CDs (STF-3 A to D) along with
millions of street addresses from TIGER 94. 

CensusCD's Windows interface lets you:

	- Custom select demographics (3,500+ variables) and geographics
	  (375,000+ US locations)
	- Search for geographic ares with area searching
	- Search for demographic variables by specific terms (e.g.
	  "income") with the counts search
	- Input an address to get neighborhood demographics (geocoding to
	  the block group)
	- View valid streets for any US zip
	- Create radius areas in miles from a center point for demographic
	  reporting
	- Easily break down reporting areas into smaller units (e.g. all
	  counties in CA)
	- Sort results in ascending/descending order
	- Produce reports in several formats (e.g. ASCII or Dbase)
	- View, search, copy into clipboard, or print reports
	- Export results to any statistical, database, spreadsheet, or
	  mapping package
	- Reference 25,000+ lines of help and a 5-minute user guide