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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:49:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetGold <NetGold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [NetGold] UNITED: STATES: STATISTICS : STATISTICS: RESOURCES:
    United States. Census Bureau. American Factfinder

UNITED: STATES: STATISTICS : STATISTICS: RESOURCES: United States. Census
Bureau. American Factfinder

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A shorter link for the site map:

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Content Sample from the Census Glossary from the first letter A section of
the glossary:

Ability to speak English
For a respondent who speaks a language other than English at home, refers
to his/her assessment of his ability to speak English, from "very well" to
"not at all."

Related term: Language spoken at home

Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (A.C.E.)
A survey designed to measure the undercount/overcount of the census.

Adopted child
A child legally taken into a family to be raised by that family.

Related terms: Foster children, Own children, Related children

Advanced query
A planned capability that will enable users to prepare tabulations online
using the full database of individual responses from Census 2000, subject
to restrictions and filters required to protect the confidentiality of
individual responses. The availability of this function is subject to
policy decisions on access and confidentiality.

Related term: Microdata files

Age
Age is generally derived from date of birth information, and is based on
the age of the person in complete years.

Aggregate
The sum of the values for each of the elements in the universe. For
example, aggregate household income is the sum of the income of all
households in a given geographic area. Aggregates are frequently used in
computing mean values (mean equals aggregate divided by universe count).

Related terms: Universe, Mean

Alaska Native race/ethnic categories
Self-identification among people of Alaska Native descent. These are the
five detailed Alaska Native race and ethnic categories used in displaying
data from Census 2000:
Alaska Athabaskan
Aleut
Eskimo
Tlingit-Haida
All other tribes

In 1997, the Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revised the
standards for how the Federal government would collect and present data on
race and ethnicity. The new guidelines reflect "the increasing diversity
of our Nations population, stemming from growth in interracial marriages
and immigration."

These new guidelines revised some of the racial categories used in 1990
and preceding censuses and allowed respondents to report as many race
categories as were necessary to identify themselves on the Census 2000
questionnaire.

Related terms: Census (decennial), Race

Alaska Native Regional Corporation (ANRC)
A corporate entity organized to conduct both business and nonprofit
affairs of Alaska Natives pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement
Act.

Alaska Native village statistical area (ANVSA)
A statistical entity that represents the densely settled extent of an
Alaska Native village, which is a local governmental unit in Alaska. An
ANVSA is delineated for the Census Bureau by officials of the Alaska
Native village or Alaska Native Regional Corporation in which the ANVSA is
located for the purpose of presenting decennial census data.

Allocation
The process by which a characteristic (for example, age, race or rent) is
assigned to a person or housing unit in the absence of an acceptable entry
on the census or survey questionnaire. The general procedure for inserting
omitted entries or changing unacceptable entries is to assign an entry for
a person that is consistent with other entries for that person or entries
for other persons with similar characteristics. The procedure is similar
for missing entries.

American Community Survey (ACS)
The American Community Survey is a large, continuous demographic survey
conducted by the Census Bureau that will eventually provide accurate and
up-to-date profiles of America's communities every year. Questionnaires
are mailed to a sample of addresses to obtain information about households
-- that is, about each person and the housing unit itself. The survey
produces annual and multi-year estimates of population and housing
characteristics and produces data for small areas, including tracts and
population subgroups.

Questions asked are similar to those on the decennial census long form.

Related term: Continuous Measurement System

American FactFinder (AFF)
An electronic system for access and dissemination of Census Bureau data on
the internet. The system offers prepackaged data products and
user-selected data tables and maps from Census 2000, the 1990 Census of
Population and Housing, the 1997 Economic Census, and the American
Community Survey. The system was formerly known as the Data Access and
Dissemination System (DADS).

American Indian Area, Alaska Native Area, Hawaiian Home Land (AIANAHH)
A Census Bureau term referring to these types of geographic areas: federal
and state American Indian reservations, American Indian off-reservation
trust land (individual or tribal), Oklahoma tribal statistical area (in
1990 tribal jurisdictional statistical area), tribal designated
statistical area, state designated American Indian statistical area,
Alaska Native Regional Corporation, Alaska Native village statistical
area, and Hawaiian home lands.

American Indian off-reservation trust land
Lands held in trust by the federal government for either a tribe or an
individual member of that tribe. They may be located on or outside of the
reservation; the Census Bureau recognizes and tabulates data only for the
off-reservation trust lands because the tribe has primary governmental
authority over these lands.

American Indian reservation
Land that has been set aside for the use of the tribe. There are two types
of American Indian reservations, federal and state. These entities are
designated as colonies, communities, pueblos, ranches, rancherias,
reservations, reserves, tribal towns, and villages.

American Indian Reservation  federal
Areas with boundaries established by treaty, statute, and/or executive or
court order recognized by the federal government as territory in which
American Indian tribes have primary governmental authority. The U.S.
Census Bureau contacts representatives of American Indian tribal
governments to identify the boundaries. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
maintains a list of federally recognized tribal governments.

American Indian Reservation - state
Lands held in trust by state governments for the use and benefit of a
given tribe. A governor-appointed state liaison provides the names and
boundaries for state reservations. The names of the American Indian
reservations recognized by state governments, but not by the federal
government, are followed by "(state)" in the data presentations.

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