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1990 U.S. Census LOOKUP

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NOTE: This page is not fully up to date. URLs referring to bigsur.lbl.gov or cedrcd.lbl.gov may be inoperative due to the move of computers from LBNL to the UC Berkeley Library. These Web pages will be updated when the move is completed.

LOOKUP is an experimental WWW server for retrieving data from 1990 U.S. Census Summary Tape Files. A WWW client with forms capability is required.

Online LOOKUP Servers (interactive data retrieval via HTTP)

• at U.S. Bureau of the Census (venus.census.gov, version 1.4)
• at University of California, Berkeley, Social Science and Government Data Library (sunsite.Berkeley.EDU)

• example #1
• example #2
• known problems (read this if you have difficulties)
• contents and locations of data files
• usage statistics (no longer available)
• performance considerations
• acknowledgments
• installing LOOKUP in your own computer
• configuration of LOOKUP servers

• home page
• current status
• policy statement regarding access
• history
• installing public data at a new site
• acknowledgements

Merrill D, Parker N, Gey F and Stuber C. 1995.
The University of California CD-ROM Information System.
Communications of the ACM 38(4) pp.51-52 (1995).

Merrill DW, Parker NG, Holmes HH, Stuber C and Gregg VJ. 1996.
1990 U.S. Census LOOKUP: Mining a Mountain of Data.
D-lib magazine, March 1996.

Glenn Davis, Cool Site of the Day, June 21, 1995.
Jeffery Kahn, Lab's Census Database Has Day of Fame.
Michael Batty, "The Computable City."
Best of the Best on the Internet: Census and Demographic Information
three star review in McKinley Magellan
review in excite NetDirectory
Internet Business 500 "Premiere Site" Ryan Bernard, Ventana Press, November 1995
The Great American Web Book, Times Books/Random House (paperback, $17) September 1996. A Book of the Month Selection. Author: Raphael Sagalyn, Bethesda MD, (301) 718-6440.
Internet Eye On The Web, Inc.