Talk:Census tract

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[edit] Move Alaska County info to County Section?

I think that discussion counties in this definition might confuse some people since tracts are typically smaller than counties. Antonrojo 14:11, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adding heirarchy of Census elements

A brief description of the heirarcy of geographic Census elements would be helpful for people trying to figure out the difference between blockgroup, MSA, CBSA, tracts, etc. I plan to add stubs for any of these that aren't present or anyone who knows this stuff might do so if I haven't gotten around to it.Antonrojo 14:11, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

You might want to start by perusing the articles in Category:Demographics of the United States. There already are articles for many of these terms. Also, I think you may have misspelled some and perhaps have not presented the hierarchy accurately -- for example, FIPS place codes are not a part of the census hierachy but are rather used to identify places. Don't have time right now to look things up. The U.S. Census Bureau web site has a wealth of resources (although it can be a maze getting to the informative background documentation). older ≠ wiser 17:50, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I'll look those over and edit as appropriate. This was a rough first draft and feel free to make any obvious changes I miss. Antonrojo 19:00, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm storing the heirarchy section I started here until I have time to bring it up to speedAntonrojo 20:14, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Heirarchy of Census Elements: The census tract is one level above the lowest level of geographic identifier that the Census uses: the block group. Going up the heirarchy, after tract other levels are: fips (county), MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) and CBSA which includes old MSA codes as well as additional micropolitan areas.

Actually, the census block is one level lower than the census block group. Sjakkalle (Check!) 14:17, 28 September 2006 (UTC)