Census+Tutorial+2+-+Getting+Data+for+Any+Part+of+the+US ArcGIS92 rev

Tufts University GIS Tutorial Working with 2000 Census Data in ArcGIS: Using the US Census Bureau Web Site for SF1 and SF3 Data Barbara Parmenter, PhD Revised October 2, 2007 Overview This tutorial shows you how to download census tract boundary data sets and associated SF1 and SF3 data sets for any county in the US, and to process them so as to be able to map the data in ArcMap. Census GIS data and demographic/housing data are available from a number of sources, the US Census Bureau being the primary source. State, regional, and local agencies may also provide access to this data in various formats. Some of these formats are impossible to bring into a GIS (e.g., a .pdf file), others may need importing or some other manipulation and some may already be provided in a usable GIS format. In this tutorial, we use free Census GIS data from the Geography Network web site run by ESRI. This data is already in ArcGIS format. We then show how to access Census database tables from the US Census Bureau web site and join these to the ESRI GIS data layer with a small amount of data manipulation. Before you begin this tutorial, please take a look at the US Census Bureau web site (www.census.gov/). This should be your first source for questions about the census, data, and data documentation. Objective • Learn how to map SF1 data census tracts, block groups, blocks, or other level of tabulation data for any part of the US • Learn how to download SF3 data at the ...