Comments on: Sacramento County SF3 Census 2000 Data

By: Eric Schultheis

Eric Schultheis — Thu, 10 May 2007 12:48:50 +0000

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.

By: Bill Cooper

Bill Cooper — Thu, 10 May 2007 04:15:56 +0000

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

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

By: Bill Cooper

Bill Cooper — Thu, 10 May 2007 04:13:16 +0000

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

By: Bill Cooper

Bill Cooper — Wed, 09 May 2007 08:20:35 +0000

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