Tuesday ~ May 8, 2007

Sacramento County SF3 Census 2000 Data

The REP is a huge fan of using the Census 2000 shapefiles provided by ESRI. Unfortunately, the available data that can joined to these files is limited and only useful to the poverty advocate in limited circumstances.

In a moment of lunacy, the REP decided to create a database of all Census 2000 Sacramento County SF3 data at the block group level indexed to the ESRI shapefiles. Now that we are done we thought we would share!

The SF3 data provided is in Dbase 5 format. The data fields are numeric. Each file begins with header fields (LOGRECNO (Logical Record Number), COUNTY, STFID, and the data dictionary reference name). Please review the Read Me file for further documentation and a listing of database contents.

This data is provided under the Terms of Use. By downloading this data you are indicating your acceptance of the Terms of Use. You will receive the data in ZIP file format. To use the data you must extract each file. Download file.

The REP would like to thank K.C. King for her help with the project. LSNC DERA attorneys really can do everything.

  • Filed under: Data, Mapping
  • Posted by ElektroMoose | 5:16 am

4 Responses to “Sacramento County SF3 Census 2000 Data”

  1. Bill Cooper commented on May 9th, 2007 at 1:20 am:

    Here is an extremely useful set of tools for conversions of all TIGER and SF 1 thru 4files nationwide.

    http://tnatlas.geog.utk.edu/downloadfree.htm

    Here are some ready-made nationwide block and block group data files that I put together a few years ago (with field names rather than variable numbers)

    http://members.tripod.com/fairdata2001/Downloads/index.html

  2. Bill Cooper commented on May 9th, 2007 at 9:13 pm:

    Whoops, I forgot about the best source for California-specific SF3 data - the full dataset for block groups and tracts is at Berkeley’s California Statewide Database

    http://swdb.igs.berkeley.edu/downloads.htm

    Here is the top-level directory for lots of other stuff:

    http://swdb.igs.berkeley.edu/downloads.htm

    Bill

  3. Bill Cooper commented on May 9th, 2007 at 9:15 pm:

    This should have been the direct link to the SF3 data.

    http://swdb.igs.berkeley.edu/census2000/sf3.html

  4. Eric Schultheis commented on May 10th, 2007 at 5:48 am:

    SWDB was the source for the base data for the Sacramento SF3 database. However, do to how the SWDB files are organized they cannot be joined to the shape files from ESRI. Nonetheless, the SWDB database is a great resource for Census techies.

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