The Bureau of the Census has released Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF1) 100-Percent data. The file includes the following population
items: sex, age, race, Hispanic or Latino origin, household relationship, and household and family characteristics. Housing
items include occupancy status and tenure (whether the unit is owner or renter occupied). SF1 does not include information
on incomes, poverty status, overcrowded housing or age of housing. These topics will be covered in Summary File 3. Data are
available for states, counties, county subdivisions, places, census tracts, block groups, and, where applicable, American
Indian and Alaskan Native Areas and Hawaiian Home Lands. The SF1 data are available on the Bureau's web site and may be retrieved
from American FactFinder as tables, lists, or maps. Users may also download a set of compressed ASCII files for each state
via the Bureau's FTP server. There are over 8000 data items available for each geographic area. The full listing of these
data items is available here as a downloadable compressed data base file named TABLES.ZIP. The uncompressed is in FoxPro data
base file (dbf) format and may be imported to ACCESS, EXCEL, and other software formats. While all of this information is
useful, the Office of Community Planning and Development has downloaded selected information for all states and areas and
is making this information available on the CPD web pages. The tables and data items selected are those items used in the
CDBG and HOME allocation formulas plus topics most pertinent to the Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS), the
Consolidated Plan, and similar overall economic and community development plans. The information is contained in five compressed
(zipped) dbf tables for each state. When uncompressed the tables are ready for use with FoxPro and they can be imported into
ACCESS, EXCEL, and other spreadsheet, GIS and database software. The data are at the block group summary level. The first
two characters of the file name are the state abbreviation. The next two letters are BG for block group. Each record is labeled
with the code and name of the city and county in which it is located so that the data can be summarized to higher-level geography.
The last part of the file name describes the contents . The GEO file contains standard Census Bureau geographic identifiers
for each block group, such as the metropolitan area code and congressional district code. The only data included in this table
is total population and total housing units. POP1 and POP2 contain selected population variables and selected housing items
are in the HU file. The MA05 table data is only for use by State CDBG grantees for the reporting of the racial composition
of beneficiaries of Area Benefit activities. The complete package for a state consists of the dictionary file named TABLES,
and the five data files for the state. The logical record number (LOGRECNO) links the records across tables.