Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171)

FTP data files: ftp://sunsite2.berkeley.edu/pub/CENSUS_2000/REDIS_PL94_171/

Subject Content:  The Census Bureau has recommended, and Commerce Secretary Donald L Evans has agreed, that unadjusted block data be released as the official Census 2000 redistricting data. For full details, click here. P.L. 94-171 data files provide small-area census population totals from Census 2000 for the purpose of legislative redistricting as required by Public Law 94-171. For each area reported, the file has four tables:

• PL1. Total population by 63 race categories
• PL2. Total Hispanic or Latino population; not Hispanic or Latino population by 63 race categories
• PL3. Population 18 years and over by 63 race categories
• PL4. Total Hispanic or Latino population 18 years and over; not Hispanic or Latino population 18 years and over by 63 race categories

Geography:  States, voting districts (42 states and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico), legislative districts (40 states), counties, minor civil division/census county divisions, places (or place parts), census tracts, block groups, census blocks.

File Format & Software:  ASCII comma-delimited and proprietary software compatible with many data base outputs, making it easy for users to view and manipulate the resulting data in various applications.