Background Information

Mapping Census Results

The John R. Borchert Map Library in Wilson Library has created a guide to mapping 2000 Census data for researchers needing to create custom maps with specialized geographic information systems at http://map.lib.umn.edu/census/census.phtml. For everyone else, American FactFinder at http://factfinder.census.gov will be the place to go for maps.

Taking the Census

• Census 2000 Home Page
  http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html
• Census 2000 Questionnaires
  http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/2000quest.html
• Factfinder for the Nation: History and Organization
  http://www.census.gov/prod/2000pubs/cff-4.pdf
• Industry and Occupation Classification System
  http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/ioindex/ioindex.html

Census and Race

• Guidance on Aggregation and Allocation of Data on Race for Use in Civil Rights Monitoring and Enforcement
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/bulletins/b00-02.html
• Race data in the 2000 Census
  http://www.demography.state.mn.us/Cen2000redistricting/Cen00racediscuss.html
• Race, Hispanic Origin, and Ancestry: Why, What, and How.
  http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/pdf/d3249c.pdf
• Racial and Ethnic Classifications Used in Census 2000 and Beyond
  http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/racefactcb.html
• Results Of The 1996 Race And Ethnic Targeted Test
  http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0018/twps0018.html

Politics and the Census

• Census 2000 Initiative
  http://www.census2000.org/
• LexisNexis Academic
  http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/lex2.cgi
• PAIS International
  http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pais.cgi

Redistricting

• Census 2000 Initiative
  http://www.census2000.org/
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