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From: Anne L. Cooper UW-CDE Data Libr....
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1992 21:06

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From:   AGE::COOPER       "Anne L. Cooper UW-CDE Data Libr. 608/262-6323 or 238-
5575" 30-JAN-1992 16:04:32.02
To:     BITNET%"MCCONNAUGHEY@NIEHS.BITNET"
CC:     COOPER
Subj:   RE: 1990 census terminology

MCCONNAUGHEY@NIEHS asks
What is a Census block? -- You should read up on Census geography; I
 suggest Chapter 3: Geography -- Areas, maps, geographic codes and files
 of publication PH80-R1-A _Users' Guide: Part A, Text; 1980 Census of
 Population and Housing_ which is probably out of print, now.  I haven't
 seen an annoucement yet for the 1990 version, but "a block is a block
 is a block" EXCEPT that in 1990, since they "blocked" the whole country,
 we have "zero-pop blocks."
What is a segment?  -- I am assuming you don't mean a geographic line-segment
 in the Dime or TIGER sense, but a record segment in a Census file. For a
 description of that sort of segment, read "Record Segmentation" on page
 76 of the work cited.  For a longer description, see the introductory
 material in any of the codebooks for the summary tape files (STF).

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