shrug-l: Census Data and using it

[C. Henry Depew]

Greetings!
     One approach is to go to the social/economic 
data files and extract by record ID number for 
those records that fall within your geographic 
parameters.  Each record has a lat/long 
designation that can be used to "locate" the 
record inside the appropriate census geographic 
polygon.  This is not a "fast" method, but it works.

C. Henry Depew



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>Hello all,
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>OK I have I am sure an easy question but I just 
>don't know how to go about this so hope you all 
>can point me in the right direction.
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>Our department (Planning Department for the City 
>of Thomasville, GA) will be delving deeper in to 
>various community improvement projects.  The use 
>of Census data and mapping out trends and 
>attributes of our community will be heavily 
>used.  So here is my problem.  I have the census 
>tracts, block groups, and block shapefiles.  Now 
>I want to join various census data tables to 
>these shapefiles.  The issue is I cannot find 
>where to download these data tables.  I know I 
>must be just missing something but I have looked 
>all over the Census's website and searched deep 
>into American Fact Finder.  I can find the data 
>but only make their maps with it.
>
>So can anyone please point me in the right 
>direction for finding downloadable data files on 
>sets like poverty rate, age population, income, etc

>
>Thanks for all your help in the past and in the future.
>
>Duane Teradon (JT)
>
>City of Thomasville
>111 Victoria Pl.
>Thomasville, GA 31792
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