Guides: Webinar Archive: Navigating the Census

Description

Need basic tips on navigating the Census website for data? This session provides step-by-step instructions on how to use the data.census.gov website to retrieve data files from the decennial Census and the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Additional Census data harvesting tools are also introduced.

Resources

U.S. Census Bureau Find data, maps, and tables on a variety of topics provided by the U.S. Census Bureau
Census Academy Free courses provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Teaches you how to use Census data for work, school, or other projects.
Missouri Census Data Center The Missouri Census Data Center (MCDC) is a cooperative program among state agencies in Missouri and the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Its purpose is to enhance awareness of and access to public data, especially Census Bureau products. The MCDC data archive, which includes many national collections as well as Missouri-specific data, is one of the premier sites in the country for accessing census and other public, machine-readable demographic and geographic data.
Census Bureau Chicago Regional Office The Chicago Regional Office is responsible for all data collection, data dissemination, and geographic operations under the current service area boundaries. States within the Chicago Region's service area include Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin.