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This website is intended to facilitate access to Census 2000 data and documentation as soon as it is released by the Census Bureau, provide preliminary results analyzed by the U.S. Census Bureau and New York State Data Center, and finally to be a clearinghouse for Census 2000 information, including pertinent Census Bureau news and announcements, updates on topics concerning Census 2000 data access and use, and anticipated release dates of data and documentation.

CSDA is collaborating with the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, which has developed an extensive set of census reports and webpages presenting analyses of census data for specific cities and metropolitan areas. Click here [add link to Albany.edu/mumford/census] to see the Mumford Center's census materials.

ACS Initiative: Using ACS Data to Study Population Change

The American Community Survey (ACS) is being implemented by the Bureau of the Census to replace the long-form decennial census with comparable information that will be updated annually and is sure to become a crucial resource for population researchers. ACS data are already being collected and the survey is projected to be in full-production in 2004. After 2010, data down to the tract and block-group level will be available annually instead of once a decade. Depending on population size, weighted 2,3, or 5 year averages will be presented. Data products from the ACS will include numerous summary tables, including many repeated for multiple race/ethnic groups, as well as a PUMS file, with PUMA identified. Our plans for this initiative are still evolving but we have formulated a basic outline of our intended project, modeled in part on the products that were part of the Census 2000 project. Some flexibility is needed since we have not yet begun to work with the ACS data. Further, the Census Bureau itself is still revising its plans for exactly which products they will produce and how often.

CSDA plans to work with the Mumford Center to help disseminate data and reports based on the ACS, beginning with the 2002 data that are already available. Our ACS initiative will help users access and understand the data, particularly the moving averages and the confidence intervals which will be presented for each number. We will also present updated figures on race/ethnic and immigrant populations as they become available for different levels of geography, especially in metropolitan areas.