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Instructions for Finding Demographic Data on the U.S. Census Web Site

The U.S. Census Bureau Web site contains a wealth of demographic data you can obtain information for

the entire U.S. by state, county, city and zip code. This information will be used in the discussion for

Week 2 and for your paper, Caring for Populations: Assessment and Diagnosis.

To get started, go to the U.S Census Bureau Web site at http://www.census.gov/. The home page shows

a list of links along the left side of the page. Go to the area called “Quick Facts” and select your state.

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This screen reveals a list of general people, business, and geography Quick Facts for the state selected.

This screen lets you narrow down your results to county and/or city-specific statistics. Please note that not

all cities are available.

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Try to narrow down your results to your city or county. This will give you the best basis to perform a

comparison to state and U. S. statistics. You can select the USA Quick Facts tab located on the pages,

too.

This will give you the basic statistics for the U. S. for comparison.

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There are also many other areas you can access from the home screen (http://www.census.gov) such as

the population finder, interactive map, census news, links to other resources (that may help with finding

more data on your identified problem), and much more!

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