Metadata: Census 2000 Geography - Blocks, Block Groups, Tracts, TAZs, Counties, County Subdivisions and Water

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Census 2000 Geography - Blocks, Block Groups, Tracts, TAZs, Counties, County Subdivisions and Water

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Metadata Summary

Originator	U.S. Census Bureau and the Metropolitan Council
Abstract	This 'Redistricting' version of the census data is the first release of the data. This 2000 census redistricting geography database of the 7 county metropolitan area and the additional 12 collar county area was developed from the U.S. Census Bureau's Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line files. The Metropolitan Council downloaded this data from the Census Bureau's FTP site, imported it into ArcInfo coverage format, added a few items to the coverage, then created block, block group, tract, county subdivision (city), county, taz and water coverages and shape files from the original data.
Browse Graphic	View a sample of the data.
Time Period of Content Date	2000
Currentness Reference	2000
Access Constraints	None
Use Constraints	By acceptance of this data, the user agrees to include a copy of this metadata record, including the liability disclaimer, whenever the user transmits or provides the GIS Data (or any portion of it) to another user. We recommend that other interested parties download this dataset from the Data Finder web site (www.datafinder.org) to ensure that the most current data is obtained.
Distributor Organization	Metropolitan Council
Ordering Instructions	This dataset is distributed on the internet. By clicking below after 'Online Linkage' you will be able to download the 7-county metro shape files. To download the shape files for the collar counties, click on this link: ftp://gisftp.metc.state.mn.us/census_2000_tiger_collar.zip Doing so will tell your browser to download a 'ZIP' file which will contain the following: - ArcView shape files - metadata for the dataset (.htm) - NOTICE.RTF, an important notice about this dataset that can be read by any word processing software. This dataset can also be viewed and downloaded from the MetroGIS DataFinder Cafe at http://www.datafinder.org/cafe/ . The Cafe allows users to subset or clip datasets using an existing feature, such as a city or school district boundary or an ad-hoc, user defined area. Additionally, this dataset is available for direct use via one or more map services. More information about what a web mapping service is can be found at http://www.datafinder.org/services/ . The specific map service and layer name for this dataset can be found by clicking the blue or green boxes under the map service column of the DataFinder Catalog at http://www.datafinder.org/catalog/ .
Online Linkage	Click here to download data. (See Ordering Instructions above for details.) By clicking here, you agree to the notice in "Distribution Liability" in Section 6 of this metadata.

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Census 2000 Geography - Blocks, Block Groups, Tracts, TAZs, Counties, County Subdivisions and Water

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1. Identification Information
2. Data Quality Information
3. Spatial Data Organization Information
4. Spatial Reference Information
5. Entity and Attribute Information
6. Distribution Information
7. Metadata Reference Information


Section 1	Identification Information		Top of page
Originator	U.S. Census Bureau and the Metropolitan Council
Title	Census 2000 Geography - Blocks, Block Groups, Tracts, TAZs, Counties, County Subdivisions and Water
Abstract	This 'Redistricting' version of the census data is the first release of the data. This 2000 census redistricting geography database of the 7 county metropolitan area and the additional 12 collar county area was developed from the U.S. Census Bureau's Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line files. The Metropolitan Council downloaded this data from the Census Bureau's FTP site, imported it into ArcInfo coverage format, added a few items to the coverage, then created block, block group, tract, county subdivision (city), county, taz and water coverages and shape files from the original data.
Purpose	For mapping and analysis of data from the U. S. Census Bureau.
Time Period of Content Date	2000
Currentness Reference	2000
Progress	Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency	None planned
Spatial Extent of Data	Seven County Twin Cities Metropolitan Area and it's 12 collar counties.
Bounding Coordinates	-94.664 -92.117 45.736 44.183
Place Keywords	Twin Cities, Anoka County, Carver County, Dakota County, Hennepin County, Ramsey County, Scott County, Washington County, Chisago County, Isanti County, Sherburne County, Wright County, McLeod County, Sibley County, Le Sueur County, Rice County, Goodhue County, Pierce County, St. Croix County, Polk County
Theme Keywords	census, demographics, census boundaries, 2000 census, blocks, block boundaries, census blocks, census block groups, census tracts, counties, county subdivisions, FIPS Place, MCDs, TAZs, water
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
Access Constraints	None
Use Constraints	By acceptance of this data, the user agrees to include a copy of this metadata record, including the liability disclaimer, whenever the user transmits or provides the GIS Data (or any portion of it) to another user. We recommend that other interested parties download this dataset from the Data Finder web site (www.datafinder.org) to ensure that the most current data is obtained.
Contact Person Information	Tanya Mayer, GIS Coordinator Metropolitan Council 390 Robert Street North St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 Phone: 651-602-1604 FAX: 651-602-1674 E-mail: tanya.mayer@metc.state.mn.us
Browse Graphic	View a sample of the data.
Browse Graphic File Description	Sample map showing the census_2000_tiger dataset.
Associated Data Sets	Census 2000 Redistricting (PL-94-171) Summary File Data (A Subset of Population Data)

Section 2	Data Quality Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Attribute Accuracy	Unknown
Logical Consistency	Each county polygon file is topologically 'clean'.
Completeness	All counties are included.
Horizontal Positional Accuracy	Presumed to meet source material standards: for 1:100,000-scale mapping, National Map Accuracy Standards state a horizontal positional accuracy of not less than +/- 167 feet for 90% of points tested.
Vertical Positional Accuracy	Not applicable
Lineage	Data originated at the U.S. Bureau of the Census, as 2000 Census Redistricting TIGER/Line files (02/07/2001). www.census.gov clicked on TIGER clicked on Redistricting Census TIGER/Line (www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/rd_2ktiger/tgr2kweb.htl) clicked on Minnesota or Wisconsin 3/27/01 Saved each of the 19 county WinZipped TIGER data files to disk FIPS CODES 1. 027003 Anoka 2. 027019 Carver 3. 027037 Dakota 4. 027053 Hennepin 5. 027123 Ramsey 6. 027139 Scott 7. 027163 Washington 8. 027025 Chisago 9. 027059 Isanti 10. 027141 Sherburne 11. 027171 Wright 12. 027085 McLeod 13. 027143 Sibley 14. 027079 LeSueur 15. 027131 Rice 16. 027049 Goodhue 17. 055093 Pierce 18. 055109 St. Croix 19. 055095 Polk Extracted each zipped file to individual county directories, for example, to .../.../census/tiger00/anok Renamed all the Tgr27019.rt1 (etc.) files with lowercase letters (to tgr27019.rt1), 17 files per county in Windows explorer (required for Unix ArcInfo 8.1 to recognize TIGER files). UNIX Workstation ArcInfo 8.1 (Create ArcInfo workspace in each county directory) Arc: cw . Arc: TIGERTOOL Usage: TIGERTOOL <tiger_prefix> <cover_prefix> (Join) (UTM STATE <zone number>) (1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000) (RESTART) Via AML... Arc: tigertool tiger/%tgrprefix% %county% join utm 15 2000 Added items to the TIGER base coverage dissovled 7 coverages from the base coverage: Block, Block Group, Tract, Cousub, County, TAZ, and Water. Added and standardized items, then, for each layer, map joined all 7 counties and the remaining 12 counties. Created shape files from these 14 coverages.
Source Scale Denominator	100000

Section 3	Spatial Data Organization Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Native Data Set Environment	TIGER; ArcInfo 8.x
Geographic Reference for Tabular Data	2000 Census Block, Block Group or Tract
Spatial Object Type	Vector
Vendor Specific Object Types	arcs, nodes, polygons, label points
Tiling Scheme	For each themes, one layer for entire seven county region and another layer for the 12 collar counties of the 7-county region.

Section 4	Spatial Reference Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Horizontal Coordinate Scheme	UTM
Ellipsoid	GRS80
Horizontal Datum	NAD83
Horizontal Units	Meters
Distance Resolution	2.54
UTM Zone Number	15

Section 5	Entity and Attribute Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page

Entity and Attribute Overview

STATE:      2 digit FIPS and state standard state code; e.g. 27, 55 
 
CO:         3 digit FIPS and state standard county code; e.g. 163, 003 
 
BLK00:      15 digit Census Block code (includes STATE & COUNTY FIPS codes) 
 
TRACT:      6 digit Census Tract number 
 
BLOCK:      4 character Census Block number 
 
BLOCKGROUP: 7 digit Census Block Group number (Tract + 1st number of the block  
            code) 
 
WATER:      1 digit water code (1 = water) 
 
COUSUB:     5 digit FIPS Place code for the county subdivision (city, township  
            or unorganized territory) 
 
MCD:        Identical to COUSUB 
 
COMCD:      Concatenation of CO and MCD. 
  
  
Information below is for ArcInfo coverage format only: 
  
DATAFILE NAME: BLOCK_2000.PAT 
   10 ITEMS: STARTING IN POSITION    1 
  COL  ITEM NAME         WDTH OPUT TYP N.DEC  ALTERNATE NAME 
    1  AREA                8   18  F    5 
    9  PERIMETER           8   18  F    5 
   17  BLOCK_2000#         4    5  B    - 
   21  BLOCK_2000-ID       4    5  B    - 
   25  STATE               2    2  I    - 
   27  CO                  3    3  C    - 
   30  BLK00              15   15  C    - 
   45  TRACT               6    6  I    - 
   51  BLOCK               4    4  C    - 
   55  BLOCKGROUP          7    7  I    - 
  
DATAFILE NAME: BLKGRP_2000.PAT 
    9 ITEMS: STARTING IN POSITION    1 
  COL  ITEM NAME         WDTH OPUT TYP N.DEC  ALTERNATE NAME 
    1  AREA                8   18  F    5 
    9  PERIMETER           8   18  F    5 
   17  BLKGRP_2000#        4    5  B    - 
   21  BLKGRP_2000-ID      4    5  B    - 
   25  STATE               2    2  I    - 
   27  CO                  3    3  C    - 
   30  BG00               12   12  I    - 
   42  TRACT               6    6  I    - 
   48  BLOCKGROUP          7    7  I    - 
  
DATAFILE NAME: TRACT_2000.PAT 
    8 ITEMS: STARTING IN POSITION    1 
  COL  ITEM NAME         WDTH OPUT TYP N.DEC  ALTERNATE NAME 
    1  AREA                8   18  F    5 
    9  PERIMETER           8   18  F    5 
   17  TRACT_2000#         4    5  B    - 
   21  TRACT_2000-ID       4    5  B    - 
   25  STATE               2    2  I    - 
   27  CO                 3    3  C    - 
   30  TRACT00            11   11  I    - 
   41  TRACT               6    6  I    - 
  
DATAFILE NAME: CTY_2000.PAT 
    6 ITEMS: STARTING IN POSITION    1 
  COL  ITEM NAME         WDTH OPUT TYP N.DEC  ALTERNATE NAME 
    1  AREA                8   18  F    5 
    9  PERIMETER           8   18  F    5 
   17  CTY_2000#           4    5  B    - 
   21  CTY_2000-ID         4    5  B    - 
   25  STATE               2    2  I    - 
   27  CO                  3    3  I    - 
  
DATAFILE NAME: COUSUB_2000.PAT  
    7 ITEMS: STARTING IN POSITION    1 
  COL  ITEM NAME         WDTH OPUT TYP N.DEC  ALTERNATE NAME 
    1  AREA                8   18  F    5 
    9  PERIMETER           8   18  F    5 
   17  MCD_2000#           4    5  B    - 
   21  MCD_2000-ID         4    5  B    - 
   25  STATE               2    2  I    - 
   27  CO                  3    3  C    - 
   30  COUSUB              5    5  C    - 
   35  MCD                 5    5  C    - 
   40  COMCD               8    8  C    - 
  
DATAFILE NAME: TAZ_2000.PAT  
    7 ITEMS: STARTING IN POSITION    1 
  COL  ITEM NAME         WDTH OPUT TYP N.DEC  ALTERNATE NAME 
    1  AREA                8   18  F    5 
    9  PERIMETER           8   18  F    5 
   17  TAZ_2000#           4    5  B    - 
   21  TAZ_2000-ID         4    5  B    - 
   25  STATE               2    2  I    - 
   27  CO                  3    3  C    - 
   30  TAZ                 6    6  C    - 
  
DATAFILE NAME: WATER_2000.PAT 
    5 ITEMS: STARTING IN POSITION    1 
  COL  ITEM NAME         WDTH OPUT TYP N.DEC  ALTERNATE NAME 
    1  AREA                8   18  F    5 
    9  PERIMETER           8   18  F    5 
   17  WATER_2000#         4    5  B    - 
   21  WATER_2000-ID       4    5  B    - 
   25  WATER               1    1  I    -

Entity and Attribute Detailed Citation	Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/ Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line Technical Documentation and Metadata

Section 6	Distribution Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Publisher	Metropolitan Council
Publication Date	02/07/2001
Contact Person Information	Tanya Mayer GIS Coordinator Metropolitan Council 390 Robert Street North St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 Phone: 651-602-1604 FAX: 651-602-1674 E-mail: tanya.mayer@metc.state.mn.us
Distributor's Data Set Identifier	census_2000_tiger
Distribution Liability	NOTICE: The Geographic Information System (GIS) Data to which this notice is attached are made available pursuant to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13). THE GIS DATA ARE PROVIDED TO YOU AS IS AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY AS TO THEIR PERFORMANCE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The GIS Data were developed by the Metropolitan Council for its own internal business purposes. The Metropolitan Council does not represent or warrant that the GIS Data or the data documentation are error-free, complete, current, or accurate. You are responsible for any consequences resulting from your use of the GIS Data or your reliance on the GIS Data. You should consult the data documentation for this particular GIS Data to determine the limitations of the GIS Data and the precision with which the GIS Data may depict distance, direction, location, or other geographic features. If you transmit or provide the GIS Data (or any portion of it) to another user, the GIS Data must include a copy of this disclaimer.
Transfer Format Name	ArcView Shape File
Transfer Format Version Number	3x
Transfer Size	For ZIP files, sizes are 12 MB for 7-county metro and 10 MB for the 12 collar counties.
Ordering Instructions	This dataset is distributed on the internet. By clicking below after 'Online Linkage' you will be able to download the 7-county metro shape files. To download the shape files for the collar counties, click on this link: ftp://gisftp.metc.state.mn.us/census_2000_tiger_collar.zip Doing so will tell your browser to download a 'ZIP' file which will contain the following: - ArcView shape files - metadata for the dataset (.htm) - NOTICE.RTF, an important notice about this dataset that can be read by any word processing software. This dataset can also be viewed and downloaded from the MetroGIS DataFinder Cafe at http://www.datafinder.org/cafe/ . The Cafe allows users to subset or clip datasets using an existing feature, such as a city or school district boundary or an ad-hoc, user defined area. Additionally, this dataset is available for direct use via one or more map services. More information about what a web mapping service is can be found at http://www.datafinder.org/services/ . The specific map service and layer name for this dataset can be found by clicking the blue or green boxes under the map service column of the DataFinder Catalog at http://www.datafinder.org/catalog/ .
Online Linkage	Click here to download data. (See Ordering Instructions above for details.) By clicking here, you agree to the notice in "Distribution Liability" above.

Section 7	Metadata Reference Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Metadata Date	07/05/2001
Contact Person Information	Tanya Mayer, GIS Coordinator Metropolitan Council 390 Robert Street North St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-1805 Phone: 651-602-1604 FAX: 651-602-1674 E-mail: tanya.mayer@metc.state.mn.us
Metadata Standard Name	Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines
Metadata Standard Version	1.2
Metadata Standard Online Linkage	http://www.gis.state.mn.us/stds/metadata.htm

This page last updated: 07/05/2001