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Resource Abstract:
- description: The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic
and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic
Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps
between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined
to cover the entire nation. Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets,
roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and
short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads. Census blocks are relatively small in area; for example, a block in a
city bounded by streets. However, census blocks in remote areas are often large and irregular and may even be many square
miles in area. A common misunderstanding is that data users think census blocks are used geographically to build all other
census geographic areas, rather all other census geographic areas are updated and then used as the primary constraints, along
with roads and water features, to delineate the tabulation blocks. As a result, all 2010 Census blocks nest within every other
2010 Census geographic area, so that Census Bureau statistical data can be tabulated at the block level and aggregated up
to the appropriate geographic areas. Census blocks cover all territory in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas
(American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Blocks are the smallest
geographic areas for which the Census Bureau publishes data from the decennial census. A block may consist of one or more
faces.; abstract: The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic
and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic
Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps
between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined
to cover the entire nation. Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets,
roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and
short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads. Census blocks are relatively small in area; for example, a block in a
city bounded by streets. However, census blocks in remote areas are often large and irregular and may even be many square
miles in area. A common misunderstanding is that data users think census blocks are used geographically to build all other
census geographic areas, rather all other census geographic areas are updated and then used as the primary constraints, along
with roads and water features, to delineate the tabulation blocks. As a result, all 2010 Census blocks nest within every other
2010 Census geographic area, so that Census Bureau statistical data can be tabulated at the block level and aggregated up
to the appropriate geographic areas. Census blocks cover all territory in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas
(American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Blocks are the smallest
geographic areas for which the Census Bureau publishes data from the decennial census. A block may consist of one or more
faces.
Citation
- Title Demographic Data - MO 2010 TIGER Census Blocks (SHP).
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- creation Date
2017-08-19T19:02:55.774706
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CINERGI Metadata catalog
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eng
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Metadata standard for this record:
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
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2007
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urn:dciso:metadataabout:f3f4d58e-e602-4772-a0c6-b5046ff0b9ee
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