Data Access Tools from the Census Bureau

Data Access Tools

Censtats - Applications available include: Census Tract Street Locator, County Business Patterns, Zip Business Patterns, International Trade Data, and more.
QuickFacts - State and County QuickFacts provides frequently requested Census Bureau information at the national, state and county level.
TIGER | TIGER Map Service Info | Maps - Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system.
US Gazetteer - Place name, and ZIP code search engine.
DataFerrett is a tool and data librarian that searches and retrieves data across federal, state, and local surveys, executes customized variable recoding, creates complex tabulations and business graphics. Current Population Survey, Survey of Income and Program Participation, American Community Survey, American Housing Survey, Small Area Income Poverty Estimates, Population Estimates, Economic Census Areawide Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics data, Centers for Disease Control data, and more. [The information that the Data Extraction System (DES) once provided is now available through DataFerrett.]

Extract Software - General purpose data display and extraction tool that works with Census Bureau CD-ROMs recorded in dBASE format - (for: IBM-PC's and compatibles with CD-ROM player)
VPLX Software - Variance Estimation for Complex Samples (for IBM-PC's and compatibles and UNIX [Sun/Solaris])
CSPro (Census and Survey Processing System) is a public-domain software package for entering, tabulating and mapping census and survey data.
IMPS software - The Integrated Microcomputer Processing System (IMPS) software performs the major tasks of census and survey processing.

Census 2000 datasets
Census OUTGOING File Directory (HTTP or FTP) - Pickup files from Census Employees.
Census INCOMING File Directory ( HTTP or FTP) - Files sent to Census Bureau Employees (invisible to non-employees).

Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Last revised: November 30 2004