Census 2010 and New American Factfinder Workshop is here!

The workshop will be held in Fenwick Instruction Room (2nd floor) on Wednesday, August 31st at 10:30-12:30.

A few seats are still available. If you want to join us, please contact Joy Suh (hsuh1@gmu.edu)

Speaker: Jori Frazier at the U.S. Census Bureau in Charlotte, NC.
Topic: Overview of the 2010 Census and American Community Survey and a hands-on training on the new American Factfinder (AFF).

Don't miss this good opportunity to learn about this important America data site.

Link to USGS Publications Changing

"The U.S. Geological Survey's Publications Warehouse (pubs.usgs.gov) will complete a process to migrate all of its' on-line publications into Portable Document Format (PDF) files by September 1, 2011."

the preferred link to this publication is:
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b1967

The previous online publication format will stop working by Sept. 1 this year.

(source: govdoc-l)

Census Data for Same-Sex Couple

"The Williams Institutes will be releasing Census Snapshot: 2010 reports throughout the summer. These Snapshots will provide demographic and geographic information about same-sex couples and same-sex couples raising children for all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico."

Please see, http://www3.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute/home.html