- SAS/GIS (Geographical Information Systems) Overview
- Using the SAS-supplied TIGER Files
- Using the
Census Bureau ATLAS (Census Tract) Map Files
Tract Map made from
ATLAS Data- Guide to the 1980 and 1990 PUMS 1% and
5% Samples
- on the RCF
- Sample SAS Program to
Read 1990 California PUMS (census90.pumsa.ca)
- SAS Program
to Read and Combine 1990 PUMS Data from All 50 States
- MicroAnalyst sofware
(www.querylogic.com)
allows relatively easy and intuitive queries of national
PUMS data.
MicroAnalyst is installed on the PCs in the ITS
Public User Rooms,
courtesy of the School of Policy, Planning and Development
(SPPD).
The Query Logic home page noted above has product demos and
an overview brochure, and the Help (when software is open and running)
can be used to learn to query the data.
Using Census Data at ITS -- Help Document
Quick Reference to Using Census Files at ITS
Mapping with TIGER and ATLAS files
List of County Names and
Codes by State
PUMS Files
STF Data -- Pre-Written Programs- (While Viewing,
Click
File>Save As to Save)
| Read Entire File | Make Raw Output File | Subset Specific Census Tracts | ||
| 1990 | STF1 | STF1A90.sas | stf1a90.rawout.sas | Subsets from 1990 Data |
| STF3 | STF3A90.sas | stf3a90.rawout.sas | Subsets from 1990 Data | |
| 1980 | STF1 | STF1A80.sas | stf1a80.rawout.sas | Subsets from 1980 Data |
| STF3 | STF3A80.sas | stf3a80.rawout.sas | Subsets from 1980 Data | |
- Collapsing Multiple Person
Records Into One Household Record
-
(While Maintaining Different Values for Selected Variables for
Each Person)
- Collapsing Multiple Records
(rectangular data) when each observation
- may have a
different number of records
Miscellaneous Programming Tips
Other Resources
USC Data Base Clearinghouse -- data available to all - USC researchers
(including lots of PUMS and other Census files)
USC Library Government Documents Web Page (official - repository for Census and other Government information)
Bureau of the Census Web Site
Online Census Data Tutorial
-- USC School of Social Work
American FactFinder --
Interactive Census Data and Map Processing
Census Information at
U of Buffalo
Census information at the
University of California, Berkeley- (see "Census Information - United States")
Missouri Census Data Center
