URBDP 510, Methodologies of Planning

Library Resources

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Main Census home page: Start here for access to all Census Bureau web pages
State & County quick facts: An easy way to access profiles of states and counties including information about people, business, and geography

Census 2000 American Factfinder: Census is using American Factfinder as the main vehicle for the release of 2000 data. See the Release Schedule for Data Products.
Maps and Boundary files: Boundary files are available in ARC/INFO export .e00 format, ArcView Shapefiles .shp format or ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ACCII) format.
1990 Census Lookup: While data is available on American Factfinder, 1990 Census Lookup is the fastest way to pull and extract data from 1990 Census of Population and Housing. Access tools link is the route to take to get to the 1990 census Lookup and other access tools.
The data dictionary for STF3: Important because it translates those P0030001 numbers at the top of your data columns into words. There is a similar data dictionary for STF1 in a zipped format available on the 1990 Census Lookup page.

Data on businesses from American Factfinder:: Census is using American Factfinder as the main vehicle for release of the Economic Census Data but data is also available from the Economic Census link off the main Census web page and results are released on CD-ROM.
County Business Patterns: Data on employment by industry for counties, provides data on number of establishments, number of employees, and payroll. Data by SIC until 1997 and in NAICS from 1998 forward. Provides link to SIC/NAICS bridge. From this site can select county, zip code, or metropolitan area business patterns.

Puget Sound Regional Council: For data products including census data for 1990 and 2000 for King, Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish Counties. Map boundary files are also available. PSRC has equivalency tables for correlating Forecast Analysis Zones FAZ and Transportation Analysis Zones TAZ to census tracts.
Washington State Data Center: Part of the Forecasting Division of the Office of Financial Management, provides access to census data and to shapefiles for boundaries. In addition OFM Forecasting provides data between censuses for cities and counties.

Washington State Employment Security Labor Market Information download: Provides access to a number of files useful to planners; including Industry employment and wages, annual averages which correspond to the printed publication Employment and payrolls in Washington State by county and industry. For the state the industry is to 4 digit SIC but for counties it is 2 digit SIC. The online data goes back to 1987, but the printed publication began in 1946. The Labor market information site has a very useful set of Selected economic data for the state and counties 1970 to 1996.
Geographic correspondence engine: for 2000 and 1990 or 1990: This application allows you to access the MABLE geographic database and to generate custom "correlation lists" as reports and/or files.

Map Collection & Cartographic Information Services page of the UW Libraries Information Gateway
Geographic Information Systems at the UW
WAGDA the Washington State Geospatial Data Archive: Includes data for King County, City of Seattle, Washington geology, Washington DEMs and DLGs. Some of this data is restricted to UW use only.
Aerial Photography and Satellite Imagery: How and where to get started locating and using air photos

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Environmental Impact Statements: This index includes only those Environmental Impact Statements that have not been cataloged as separate items. The Libraries holdings of cataloged EIS's appear like other books in the Libraries' catalog, with authors, titles, subject headings, etc.

Washington State Newsstand: Indexing and full-text of major Washington newspapers, including the Seattle times, Seattle post-intelligencer, Puget Sound business journal, Spokane spokesman review, Tacoma news tribune, and Vancouver columbian, plus selected coverage of other regional sources
Lexis-Nexis: Extensive array of full-text news (newspapers, wire services, transcripts and newsletters), business literature, industry and company information, legal, biographical, and reference resources
National Newspapers: This newspaper database provides coverage of major newspapers, including the New York times, Wall Street journal, Washington post, Los Angeles times, Christian Science monitor, USA today, Boston globe, and the Atlanta journal/constitution.

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