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Census 2000 on 2010 Geographies
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Summary File 3 Technical Documentation
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Social Explorer, U.S. Census Bureau; 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 3: Technical Documentation, 2002.
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Census 2000 on 2010 Geographies
Summary File 3 Technical Documentation
Chapter 1. Abstract
Citation
Type of File
Subject Content
Geographic Content
State Files
National Files
User Updates
Related Products
Census 2000: Summary File 4 (SF 4)
Census 2000: PHC-2, Summary Social, Economic, and Housing Characteristics
File Ordering
Chapter 2. How to Use This File
Introduction
Data Format and Access Tools
File Naming Conventions
Reading the Geographic Header Record
Geographic Hierarchy Primer
Record Identification
Summary Level Sequence Chart
Data Structure and Segmentation
User Updates
Chapter 3. Subject Locator
General Information
Subject Locator
Chapter 4. Summary Level Sequence Chart
Chapter 5. List of Tables (Matrices)
Chapter 6. Summary Table Outlines
Population Subjects (Summarized to Block Group Level)
Population Subjects (Summarized to Census Tract Level)
Housing Subjects (Summarized to Block Group Level)
Housing Subjects (Summarized to Census Tract Level)
Chapter 7. Data Dictionary
Identification Section
Footnote Section
Table (Matrix) Section
Chapter 8. Accuracy of the Data
Introduction
Master Address File Development
Service-Based Enumeration
Sample Design
Confidentiality of the Data
Errors in the Data
Limitations of the Group Quarters Data
Calculation of Standard Errors
Using Tables to Compute Standard Errors and Confidence Intervals
Estimation Procedure
People
Housing Units
Consistency with Complete Counts
Nonsampling Error
Types of Nonsampling Error
Reduction of Nonsampling Error
Resolving Multiple Responses
Editing of Unacceptable Data
Chapter 9. User Updates
Data Notes
Data Note 1
Data Note 2
Data Note 3
Data Note 4 - Updated June 2004
Data Note 5
Data Note 6
Data Note 7
Data Note 8
Data Note 9
Data Note 10
Data Note 11
Data Note 12
Geography Notes
Geography Note 1
Geography Note 2
Geography Note 3
Geography Note 4
Geography Note 5
Geography Note 6
Geography Note 7
Geography Note 8
Technical Documentation Notes
Technical Documentation Note 1
Technical Documentation Note 2
Technical Documentation Note 3
Technical Documentation Note 4
Technical Documentation Note 5
Technical Documentation Note 6
Technical Documentation Note 7
Technical Documentation Note 8
Technical Documentation Note 9
Appendix A. Census 2000 Geographic Terms and Concepts
Introduction-Geographic Presentation of Data
Hierarchical Presentation
Inventory Presentation
American Indian/Alaska Native Area/Hawaiian Home Land (AIANA/HHL) Entities
American Indian Area, Alaska Native Area, Hawaiian Home Land
Alaska Native Regional Corporation (ANRC)
Alaska Native Village Statistical Area (ANVSA)
American Indian Reservation
American Indian Off-Reservation Trust Land
American Indian Tribal Subdivision
Hawaiian Home Land (HHL)
Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area (OTSA)
State Designated American Indian Statistical Area (SDAISA)
Tribal Designated Statistical Area (TDSA)
Area Measurement
Block Group (BG)
Boundary Changes
Census Block
Census Division
Census Region
Census Tract
Congressional District (CD)
County (or Statistically Equivalent Entity)
County Subdivision
Census County Division (CCD)
Census Subarea
Minor Civil Division (MCD)
Unorganized Territory
Geographic Code
Census Code
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Code
United States Postal Service (USPS) Code
Internal Point
Island Areas of the United States
Metropolitan Area (MA)
Central City
Consolidated and Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA and PMSA)
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
Metropolitan Area Title and Code
New England County Metropolitan Area (NECMA)
Place
Census Designated Place (CDP)
Consolidated City
Incorporated Place
Population or Housing Unit Density
Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA)
Puerto Rico
Municipio
Barrio, Barrio-Pueblo, and Subbarrio
Zona Urbana and Comunidad
School District
State (or Statistically Equivalent Entity)
State Legislative District (SLD)
TIGER® Database
Traffic Analysis Zone (TAZ)
Tribal Block Group
Tribal Census Tract
United States
Urban and Rural
1
Urbanized Area (UA)
Urban Cluster (UC)
Urbanized Area Title and Code
Urbanized Area Central Place
Extended Place
Urban Growth Area (UGA)
Voting District (VTD)
ZIP Code® Tabulation Area (ZCTA)
Appendix B. Definitons of Subject Characteristics
Population Characteristics
Age
Ancestry
Citizenship Status
Disability Status
Educational Attainment
Employment Status
Grade in Which Enrolled
Grandparents as Caregivers
Group Quarters
Hispanic or Latino
Household Type and Relationship
Income in 1999
Industry, Occupation, and Class of Worker
Journey to Work
Language Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English
Marital Status
Place of Birth
Poverty Status in 1999
Race
Reference Week
Residence 5 Years Ago
School Enrollment and Employment Status
School Enrollment and Type of School
Sex
Vetaran Status
Work Status in 1999
Year of Entry
Housing Characteristics
Living Quarters
Acreage (Cuerda)
Agricultural Sales
Bedrooms
Business on Property
Condominium Fee
Contract Rent
Farm Residence
Gross Rent
Gross Rent as a Percentage of Household Income In 1999
House Heating Fuel
Household Size
Insurance for Fire, Hazard, and Flood
Kitchen Facilities
Meals Included In Rent
Mobile Home Costs
Mortgage Payment
Mortgage Status
Occupants per Room
Plumbing Facilities
Population in Occupied Units
Poverty Status of Households In 1999
Real Estate Taxes
Rooms
Second or Junior Mortgage Payment or Home Equity Loan
Selected Conditions
Selected Monthly Owner Costs
Selected Monthly Owner Costs as a Percentage of Household Income In 1999
Telephone Service Available
Tenure
Units in Structure
Usual Home Elsewhere
Utilities
Vacancy Status
Value
Vehicles Available
Year Householder Moved Into Unit
Year Structure Built
Derived Measures
Aggregate
Average
Interpolation
Mean
Special rounding rules for aggregates
Aggregates Subject to Rounding
Median
Percentage
Quartile
Rate
Ratio
Appendix C. Data Collection and Processing Procedures
Enumeration and Residence Rules
United States
Puerto Rico
Major Components of the Census 2000 Plan
The Master Address File
Public Outreach and Marketing
Questionnaire Mailout/Mailback
Collecting Data on Populations Living in Nontraditional Households
Collecting Long Form Data to Meet Federal Requirements
Retrieving and Processing the Data From the Returned Forms
Matching and Unduplication
Geographic Database Development-TIGER®
Field Offices and Staffing
Data Collection: Basic Enumeration Strategy
Special Populations
Telecommunications Support and Automated Data Processing
Quality Assurance
The Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal in 1998
Data Dissemination Through the Internet
Evaluation and Preparation for 2010
Glossary
100-Percent Data
100-Percent Edited Detail File (HEDF)
Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (A.C.E.)
Advance Notice Letter/Reminder Card (ANL/RC)
American FactFinder (AFF)
Apportionment
Be Counted Enumeration and Be Counted Form
Census 2000 Publicity Office (C2PO)
Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994
Census Edited File (CEF)
Census Information Center (CIC)
Census Unedited File (CUF)
Computer-Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI)
Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI)
Confidentiality
Confidentiality Edit
Coverage Edit/Coverage Edit Follow-Up (CEFU)
Coverage Improvement Adjustment
Coverage Improvement Follow-Up (CIFU)
Data Access and Dissemination System (DADS)
Data Capture Center (DCC)
Data Capture System 2000 (DCS 2000)
Decennial Census
Decennial Master Address File (DMAF)
Decennial Response File (DRF)
Delivery Sequence File (DSF)
Derived Measures
Disclosure Avoidance (DA)
Dual-System Estimation (DSE)
Family
Geocoding
Group Quarters
Heterogeneity
Homogeneity
Household
Housing Unit
Imputation
List/Enumerate
Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA)
Long Form
Mailout/Mailback (MO/MB)
Master Address File (MAF)
Metadata
Microdata
Nongovernment Organization
Nonresponse Follow-up
Nonsampling Error
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)
Poststratum
Primary Selection Algorithm (PSA)
Program for Address List Supplementation (PALS)
Public Law (P.L.) 94-171
Public Law (P.L.) 103-430
Public Law (P.L.) 105-119
Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA)
Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)
Quality Assurance (QA)
Questionnaire Mailing Strategy
Reapportionment
Redistricting
Sample Census Edited File (SCEF)
Sample Edited Detail File (SEDF)
Sampling Error
Sampling Stratum
Scanner
Seasonal/Recreational/Occasional Use
Separate Living Quarters
Service-Based Enumeration (SBE)
Service Locations
Short Form
Simplified Enumerator Questionnaire (SEQ)
Soup Kitchens
Special Place
Special Place Facility Questionnaire (SPFQ)
State Data Center (SDC)
Summary File (SF)
Summary Table
Tabulation Block
Targeted Nonsheltered Outdoor Location (TNSOL)
Telephone Questionnaire Assistance (TQA)
Thematic Map
Title 13 (United States Code)
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER®)
Transient Night (T-Night)/T-Night Enumeration (TNE)
Type of Enumeration Area (TEA)
Urban Update/Leave (UU/L)
Usual Home Elsewhere (UHE)
Usual Residence
Voting District (VTD)
Whole Household Usual Home Elsewhere (WHUHE)
Appendix D. Questionairre
U. S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census
Original questionairres
Appendix E. Data Products and User Assistance
Census 2000 Data Products
Internet and CD-ROM/DVD Products
Printed Reports and Profiles
Census 2000 Maps and Geographic Products
TIGER/Line Files
Census Block Maps
Census Tract Outline Maps
Reference Maps
Generalized Boundary Files
Thematic Maps
Reference Materials
Census 2000 Gateway
Census Online Catalog
American FactFinder®
Technical Documentation
Sources of Assistance
U.S. Census Bureau
Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)
State Data Centers
Census Information Centers
Appendix F. Maps
Introduction
Map Descriptions
Census 2000 Block Maps
Census Tract Outline Map (Census 2000)
Appendix G. Code Lists
Acknowledgments
Social Explorer, U.S. Census Bureau; 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 3: Technical Documentation, 2002.