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=============
Data Overview
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The census.ire.org site will contain data from Summary File 1 of the 2010 Decennial Census. For full details about the data contained in these tables, please refer to Chapter 6 of the `Technical Documentation`_ provided by the Census Bureau.
.. _Technical Documentation: http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/doc/sf1.pdf
The Census Bureau is releasing the Summary File 1 data on a rolling basis beginning in mid June. Data for a few states will be released each week and added to the census.ire.org site until all data are available sometime in August.
Geographies
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The census.ire.org site will provide data at several key levels of geography: place, county subdivision, county and state.
Places and county subdivisions
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Counties
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Counties in most states.
Parishes in Louisiana.
Alaska has boroughs, and county-equivalents for areas of the state not part of borough.
States
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Self explanatory.
Formats
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CSV
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These are comma-separated-value files. They are plain-text files that can be opened in Excel or other programs for further analysis of the data.
The fields in the CSV files will be transposed.
KML
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File suitable for using with Google Fusion Table's mapping feature or other spatial analysis tools.
JSON
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Javascript Object Notation for use with web applications.