In 2000, 262 million people aged 5 and older resided in the United States. Of this popula- tion, 120 million (46 percent) lived in a different home in 2000 than they did in 1995: 35 percent lived in a different home in the same state, 8 percent lived in a different state, and 3 percent had moved from abroad. This report, part of a series that presents population and housing data collected by Census 2000, highlights data on the geographi- cal mobility of people 5 and older; more specifi- cally, it focuses on “movers”; that is, people who lived in a different home in 2000 than they did in 1995. 1 The geographical mobil- ity data are derived from the Census 2000 long-form question on residence 5 years ago. A similar question on previous residence has been asked on each census since 1940, except the 1950 cen- sus, which asked for residence 1 year ago. Since the Census 2000 question covered a 5-year period, it was asked U S C E N S U S B U R E A U Helping You Make Informed Decisions U.S. Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. CENSUS BUREAU Issued September 2003 C2KBR-28 Geographical Mobility: 1995 to 2000 Census 2000 Brief By Bonny Berkner and Carol S. Faber b. Where did this person live 5 years ago? Yes Name of city, town, or post office Did this person live inside the limits of the city or town? No, outside the city/town limits Name of county Name of state ZIP Code Figure 1. Reproduction of the Question on Residence 5 Years Ago From Census 2000 Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 questionnaire. No, outside the United States — Print name of foreign country, or Puerto Rico, Guam, etc., below; then skip to 16. 15 Person is under 5 years old Skip to 33 Yes, this house Skip to 16 No, different house in the United States a. Did this person live in this house or apartment 5 years ago (on April 1, 1995)? 1 People who did not move during the 5-year period between 1995 and 2000 as well as those who had moved but by 2000 had returned to their 1995 residence are defined as nonmovers. Movers may have moved more than once during the 5-year period.
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In 2000, 262 millionpeople aged 5 and olderresided in the UnitedStates. Of this popula-tion, 120 million (46 percent) lived in adifferent home in 2000than they did in 1995:35 percent lived in adifferent home in thesame state, 8 percentlived in a different state,and 3 percent hadmoved from abroad.This report, part of aseries that presentspopulation and housingdata collected byCensus 2000, highlightsdata on the geographi-cal mobility of people 5and older; more specifi-cally, it focuses on“movers”; that is, peoplewho lived in a differenthome in 2000 than theydid in 1995.1
The geographical mobil-ity data are derivedfrom the Census 2000long-form question onresidence 5 years ago.A similar question onprevious residence hasbeen asked on each
census since 1940, except the 1950 cen-sus, which asked for residence 1 yearago. Since the Census 2000 questioncovered a 5-year period, it was asked
U S C E N S U S B U R E A UHelping You Make Informed Decisions
U.S.Department of CommerceEconomics and Statistics Administration
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU
Issued September 2003
C2KBR-28
Geographical Mobility: 1995 to 2000Census 2000 Brief
By Bonny Berkner andCarol S. Faber
b. Where did this person live 5 years ago?
Yes
Name of city, town, or post office
Did this person live inside the limits of thecity or town?
No, outside the city/town limits
Name of county
Name of state
ZIP Code
Figure 1.
Reproduction of the Question on Residence 5 Years Ago From Census 2000
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 questionnaire.
No, outside the United States — Print name offoreign country, or Puerto Rico, Guam, etc., below;then skip to 16.
15
Person is under 5 years old Skip to 33Yes, this house Skip to 16
No, different house in the United States
a. Did this person live in this house or apartment5 years ago (on April 1, 1995)?
1 People who did not move during the 5-yearperiod between 1995 and 2000 as well as thosewho had moved but by 2000 had returned to their1995 residence are defined as nonmovers. Moversmay have moved more than once during the 5-yearperiod.
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only of people 5 and older. Thequestion has always included sev-eral parts, such as whether therespondent lived in the same homeat the earlier date and, if not,where he or she lived previously.Information collected from thosewho moved includes the name ofthe previous city, town, or postoffice; ZIP Code; county; and U.S.State, U.S. territory, or foreigncountry (Figure 1).
This report provides an overviewof moving behavior in the UnitedStates2 between 1995 and 2000,including how many people movedand the kinds of moves they made.Moves are classified by whetherthey occurred within the samecounty, from a different county inthe same state, from a differentstate by region, or from abroad.3
Data by race and Hispanic originshow differences among thesegroups in both the rate of movingand the types of moves. The brieflooks at the number of people whomoved from one region to anotherand compares the number andtypes of moves reported in Census2000 with those from the 1990census. Information for each statehighlights those with low mobilityrates as well as those that attract-ed migrants from other regionsand from abroad. In addition, thisbrief looks at the population bystate of residence in 2000 by placeof birth.
About half of U.S. residentschanged residence between1995 and 2000.
Among people 5 and older in2000, 46 percent moved between1995 and 2000 (Table 1).4 One-quarter of the population 5 andolder moved within the same coun-ty. Among those who moved, 54 percent moved within the samecounty, 21 percent moved betweencounties in the same state, 18 per-cent moved between states, and 6 percent moved from abroad.
Over the past four censuses, the 5-year moving rate ranged very nar-rowly between 46 percent and 47 percent. Although the numberof movers 5 and older increasedfrom about 108 million to 120 mil-lion, the moving rate for this popu-lation decreased from 47 percent in1990 to 46 percent in 2000. This
pattern held true for most types ofmoves between 1990 and 2000;that is, the number of people mak-ing each type of move increased,but the proportion declined slightly.One exception to this general pat-tern is that the proportion of peoplewho moved from abroad increasedbetween 1990 and 2000. The 7.5 million movers from abroad in2000 represented a 47-percentincrease over the 5.1 millionin1990, by far the largest relativeincrease in any of the categoriesshown in Table 1. Also, the propor-tion moving to a different county inthe same state did not change.
Non-Hispanic Whites were the least mobile racial orethnic group.
Census 2000 allowed respondentsto choose more than one race. Withthe exception of the Two or moreraces group, all race groups dis-cussed in this report refer to peoplewho indicated only one racial identi-ty among the six major categories:White, Black or African American,American Indian and Alaska Native,
2 The text of this report discusses datafor the United States, including the 50 statesand the District of Columbia. Data for theCommonwealth of Puerto Rico are shown inTable 4, Figure 3, and Table 6, and Figure 4.
3 Although moves within a county,between counties, and even between statescan be of overlapping distances, in thisbrief, the types of moves are treated asforming a distance continuum. Within-coun-ty moves in general are assumed to be theshortest, followed by moves to a differentcounty in the same state, moves to a differ-ent state, and those from abroad.
Table 1.Number and Percentage of Movers by Type of Move forthe Population 5 Years and Older: 1985 to 1990 and1995 to 2000(Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsamplingerror, and definitions, see www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf)
Same residence 5 years ago (nonmovers) . 122,796,970 53.3 142,027,478 54.1Different residence 5 years ago (movers) . . . 107,648,807 46.7 120,347,674 45.9
* This category includes movers from foreign countries or at sea (for example, people living on aboat), as well as movers from Puerto Rico, U.S. Island Areas, and U.S. minor outlying areas.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3; 1990 Census of Population, SummaryTape File 3.
4 The estimates in this report are based onresponses from a sample of the population.As with all surveys, estimates may vary fromthe actual values because of sampling varia-tion or other factors. All statements made inthis report have undergone statistical testingand are significant at the 90-percent confi-dence level unless otherwise noted.
Asian, Native Hawaiian or OtherPacific Islander, and Some otherrace.5 The use of the single-racepopulation in this report does notimply that it is the preferredmethod of presenting or analyzingdata. The Census Bureau uses avariety of approaches.6
Moving rates and types of movesdiffered by racial and ethnic char-acteristics. Less than half ofWhites, non-Hispanic Whites, andBlacks moved during the 1995 to2000 period, while all the other
racial and ethnic groups had highermoving rates (Table 2).7 Some otherrace, Hispanics (of any race), andBlacks were most likely to havemoved within the same county (34 percent, 32 percent, and 31 per-cent, respectively). In contrast,Asians and non-Hispanic Whiteswere the least likely to make intra-county moves (22 percent and 23 percent, respectively). Non-Hispanic Whites were more likely tohave moved from a different coun-ty, whether in the same state (10 percent) or from a different
state (9 percent), than either Blacksor Hispanics. Asians were muchmore likely than any of the othergroups to have moved from abroad(14 percent), although 10 percent ofHispanics lived outside the UnitedStates in 1995.
The South gained populationthrough internal migration.
Among migrants within the UnitedStates (excluding those fromabroad), more people moved to theSouth during the 1995 to 2000period than to any other region.8
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Table 2.Type of Move by Race and Hispanic Origin for the Population 5 Years and Older:1995 to 2000(Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, seewww.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf)
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino. . . . . . . 183,342,983 104,404,231 78,938,752 43.1 22.9 10.2 8.9 1.1
* This category includes movers from foreign countries or at sea (for example, people living on a boat), as well as movers from Puerto Rico, U.S. IslandAreas, and U.S. minor outlying areas.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3.
5 For further information on each of thesix major race groups and the Two or moreraces population, see reports from theCensus 2000 Brief series (C2KBR), availableon the Census 2000 Web site at www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs.html.
6 This report draws heavily on SummaryFile 3, a Census 2000 product that can beaccessed through American FactFinder, avail-able from the Census Bureau’s Web site,www.census.gov. Information on people whoreported being more than one race, such as“White and American Indian and AlaskaNative” or “Asian and Black or AfricanAmerican,” is forthcoming in Summary File 4,which will also be available through AmericanFactFinder in 2003. About 2.6 percent of peo-ple reported they were more than one race.
7 Hereafter this report uses the termBlack to refer to people who are Black orAfrican American, the term Pacific Islander torefer to people who are Native Hawaiian andOther Pacific Islander, and the term Hispanicto refer to people who are Hispanic orLatino.
Because Hispanics may be of any race,data in this report for Hispanics overlap withdata for racial groups. Based on Census2000 sample data, the proportion Hispanicwas 8.0 percent for Whites, 1.9 percent forBlacks, 14.6 percent for American Indiansand Alaska Natives, 1.0 percent for Asians,9.5 percent for Pacific Islanders, 97.1 per-cent for those reporting Some other race,and 31.1 percent for those reporting Two ormore races.
8 The Northeast region includes the statesof Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, NewHampshire, New Jersey, New York,Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.The Midwest region includes the states ofIllinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan,Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota,Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. TheSouth region includes the states of Alabama,Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia,Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi,North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina,Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, andthe District of Columbia, a state equivalent.The West region includes the states of Alaska,Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho,Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah,Washington, and Wyoming.
Over 5 million people moved tothe South, followed by 2.7 millionto the West (Table 3). The Southalso had the highest number ofoutmigrants (3.2 million), while theWest had the lowest (2.7 million).The data in Table 3 also show thatthe South had the greatest gainthrough both internal migration(1.8 million) and movers fromabroad (2.6 million) during theperiod. The West had almost equalnumbers of inmigrants and outmi-grants. The Northeast (-1.3 mil-lion) and the Midwest (-541,000)lost more population than theygained through internal migrationbetween 1995 and 2000; however,in both cases the number ofmovers from abroad exceeded thenet internal migration loss.
Figure 2 shows the number of peo-ple 5 and older who moved fromone region to another between1995 and 2000. Large numbers ofmovers flowed to the South fromeach of the other regions, particu-larly the Northeast. The South alsoreceived more migrants from everyregion than it sent. Although theWest sent more migrants to theSouth than it received, it gainedmigrants from the other regions.The Midwest gained only from theNortheast, while the Northeastsent more migrants to each otherregion than it gained.
Moving rates varied by region,state, and county.
The West and the South had themost mobile populations. Slightlymore than half (51 percent) of thepopulation 5 and older living in theWest moved between 1995 and2000, followed by 48 percent in theSouth, 44 percent in the Midwest,and 39 percent in the Northeast(Table 4). Movers to the West andthe South were about equally likely,and movers to other regions weremore likely, to have come from a
different county in the same stateas from a different state.
In 2000, the states with the mostmobile populations were Nevada at63 percent, and Colorado andArizona both at 56 percent (Table 4). Compared with 1990,Colorado replaced Alaska on this
list. Pennsylvania and WestVirginia at 37 percent each, andNew York at 38 percent had thelowest percentages of people livingin a different residence in 2000than in 1995. These three statesalso had the lowest percentages ofpeople living in a different house
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Table 3.Net Migration for Regions for the Population 5 Years andOlder: 1995 to 2000(Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsamplingerror, and definitions, see www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf)
* This category includes movers from foreign countries or at sea (for example, people living on aboat), as well as movers from Puerto Rico, U.S. Island Areas, and U.S. minor outlying areas.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3.
Figure 2.Region-to-Region Migration: 1995-2000(Number in thousands)
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375
1,873
560
318
1,713
920 838
1,218
1,186
381
816
1,457
WEST
MIDWEST
SOUTH
NORTHEAST
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Table 4.Geographical Mobility for the United States, Regions, and States, and for Puerto Rico forthe Population 5 Years and Older: 1995 to 2000(Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, seewww.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf)
(X) Not applicable.* This category includes movers from foreign countries or at sea (for example, people living on a boat), as well as movers from Puerto Rico, U.S. Island
Areas, and U.S. minor outlying areas.** The last 4 column headings for the Puerto Rico line differ from the rest of the table. From left to right, the last four columns are: percent moved within
municipio, percent moved from different municipio to another municipio within Puerto Rico, percent moved from United States, percent moved from Island Areasor elsewhere.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3.
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17.0 to 29.2
11.3 to 16.9
7.5 to 11.2
3.8 to 7.4
Geographical Mobility:1995 to 2000
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Percentage of residents 5 years and older who moved into the state,1995 to 2000
37.5 to 80.2
27.5 to 37.4
20.9 to 27.4
15.5 to 20.8
5.0 to 15.4
U.S. percent 20.9
U.S. percent 11.3(Data based on sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf)
Figure 3.
0 100 Miles0 100 Miles0 100 Miles
0 100 Miles
Percentage ofresidents 5 yearsand older whomoved into thecounty, 1995to 2000
in 1990 than in 1985. In 2000,California, Arizona, and Nevadaresidents were most likely to haveto moved within the same county,about 31 percent. However,Nevada residents were also muchmore likely to have come fromanother state (25 percent) thanwere residents of other states.
Figure 3 contains two maps thatprovide information for each stateand county in the United States.The maps display the proportion ofresidents who moved betweencounties or into counties fromabroad (larger map) or betweenstates or into states from abroad(smaller inset map) between 1995and 2000. The county map showsconsiderable variation, with nearlyall states having a county in atleast three of the five migrationcategories. However, high percent-ages of movers were most fre-quent in counties in the West andin parts of the South, including, forexample, Texas, Florida, and north-ern Georgia. Low percentageswere most frequent in counties inthe Northeast, the Midwest, andsome counties in the South.
Virginia provides a good example ofvariations among counties in astate. While many of the countiesin eastern Virginia show above-aver-age levels of movement into thecounty, many of the counties in thewestern half of the state do not.
The state map in Figure 3 showsthat the highest rate of movesfrom other states or from abroadoccurred in Nevada, Arizona,Colorado, Alaska, and Idaho.Conversely, the rate of moves fromother states or from abroad waslowest in Ohio, Michigan,Louisiana, and Pennsylvania.
Military and collegemetropolitan areas have highproportions of inmigrants.
Table 5 shows the ten metropolitanareas with the highest percentageof inmigrants during the 1995-2000 period. This list was headedby the Jacksonville, North CarolinaMSA, and Bryan- College Station,Texas MSA. Jacksonville has manymilitary personnel and Bryan-College Station, like other metro-politan areas high on the list,includes a college town. In general
this ranking highlights one of thebasic facts about geographicalmobility: young adults, particularlythose in college or the military, arethe most mobile segment of the population.
ADDITIONAL FINDINGS
What proportion of peoplelived in the state in whichthey were born?
Table 6 differs from the other datapresented in this brief in that it isnot focused on where people lived5 years ago but, rather, on lifetimemigration. The comparison of dataon state of residence in 2000 withdata on state and region of birthreflects the cumulative effect oflonger-term migration patternsover the last few decades. Sixtypercent of people in the UnitedStates were born in their currentstate of residence. The Midwestled the regions in the proportion ofpeople currently residing in theirbirth state (71 percent), and anadditional 11 percent were bornelsewhere in the Midwest. At theother end of the scale, less thanhalf of the people living in a statein the West (47 percent) in 2000were born in that state. The Westled, however, in the proportion ofthe population that was foreign-born, about 19 percent, followedby the Northeast at 14 percent.The proportion foreign-born in theWest and Northeast was secondonly to the proportion born in theircurrent state of residence.
Figure 4 shows a state map of thepercentage of the population bornin their current state of residence.Among the states, popular migrantdestinations like Nevada (21 per-cent), Florida (33 percent), andArizona (35 percent) had the low-est proportions of people living inthe state in which they were born.At the other extreme, Louisiana
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Table 5.Ten Metropolitan Areas With the Highest Percentage ofPeople 5 Years and Older Moving Into the MetropolitanArea From Outside the Area: 1995 to 2000(Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsamplingerror, and definitions, see www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf)
* For the highest percentage of inmigrants, the 90-percent confidence interval is around the percent.
Note: Because of sampling error, the estimates in this table may not be significantly different fromone another or from rates for other geographic areas not listed in this table.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3.
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Table 6.Place of Residence in 2000 by Place of Birth for the United States, Regions, and States,and for Puerto Rico: 2000(Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, seewww.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf)
* For the Puerto Rico line, the second column heading differs from the rest of the table. It is: Born in Puerto Rico. Columns 3-6 refer to the regions of theUnited States.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3.
(79 percent), Pennsylvania (78 per-cent), and Michigan (75 percent),had the highest percentages of res-idents currently living in their stateof birth.
A number of other interesting rela-tionships can be seen in Table 6.For example, 42 percent of the resi-dents of New Hampshire and 31 percent of those in Vermontwere born in another Northeasternstate. A large intraregional prefer-ence can also be seen among theresidents of Idaho, 30 percent ofwhom were born elsewhere in theWest. Table 6 also shows the rangein the proportion foreign-born, ledby 26 percent in California and 20 percent in New York. In several
states in the South and theMidwest, less than 5 percent of thepopulation was foreign-born, includ-ing West Virginia (1.1 percent) andMississippi (1.4 percent).
ABOUT CENSUS 2000
Why Census 2000 AskedAbout Residence 5 Years Ago
Data on residence 5 years ago areused to assess residential stabilityand the effects of migration in bothurban and rural areas. Knowing thenumber and characteristics ofmovers is essential for federal pro-grams dealing with employment,housing, education, and the elderly.The U.S. Census Bureau developsstate population estimates by age
and sex, and small area populationprojections based in part on dataabout residence 5 years ago. Localgovernments use data about migra-tion to forecast the demand for newpublic facilities, such as schools,hospitals, libraries, and fire andpolice stations.
Accuracy of the Estimates
The data contained in this reportare based on the sample of house-holds who responded to theCensus 2000 long form.Nationally, approximately 1 out ofevery 6 housing units was includedin this sample. As a result, thesample estimates may differ some-what from 100-percent figures thatwould have been obtained if all
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MT56.1
AK38.1
NM51.5
OR45.3
MN70.2
KS59.5
SD68.1
ND72.5
MO67.8
WA47.2
FL32.7
IL67.1
IN69.3
WI73.4
NY65.3
PA77.7
MI75.4
OH74.7
IA74.8
ME67.3
MA 66.1
CT 57.0
AZ34.7
NV21.3
TX62.2
CO41.1
CA50.2
WY42.5
UT62.9
ID47.2
NE67.1
OK62.6
GA57.8
AR63.9
AL73.4
NC63.0
MS74.3
LA79.4
TN64.7
KY73.7
VA51.9
SC64.0
WV74.2
2.1
RI 61.4
DE 48.3MD 49.3
DC 39.2
NJ 53.4
U.S. percent60.0
Percent of stateresidents who wereborn in the state
70.0 - 90.7
60.0 - 69.9
45.0 - 59.9
21.3 - 44.9
Population Born in State of Residence: 2000
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Figure 4.
(Data based on sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error,nonsampling error, and definitions, see www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf)
PR 90.7
HI 56.9
VT54.3
NH43.3
housing units, people within thosehousing units, and people living ingroup quarters had been enumer-ated using the same question-naires, instructions, enumerators,and so forth. The sample esti-mates also differ from the valuesthat would have been obtainedfrom different samples of housingunits, people within those housingunits, and people living in groupquarters. The deviation of a sam-ple estimate from the average ofall possible samples is called thesampling error.
In addition to the variability thatarises from the sampling proce-dures, both sample data and 100-percent data are subject to non-sampling error. Nonsampling errormay be introduced during any ofthe various complex operationsused to collect and process censusdata. Such errors include: not enu-merating every household or everyperson in the population, failing toobtain all required informationfrom the respondents, obtainingincorrect or inconsistent informa-tion, and recording informationincorrectly. In addition, errors canoccur during the field review of theenumerators’ work, during clericalhandling of the census question-naires, or during the electronicprocessing of the questionnaires.
Nonsampling error may affect thedata in two ways: (1) errors thatare introduced randomly willincrease the variability of the dataand, therefore, should be reflectedin the standard errors; and (2)errors that tend to be consistent inone direction will bias both sample
and 100-percent data in that direc-tion. For example, if respondentsconsistently tend to underreporttheir incomes, then the resultingestimates of households or fami-lies by income category will tendto be understated for the higherincome categories and overstatedfor the lower income categories.Such biases are not reflected in thestandard errors.
While it is impossible to eliminatenonsampling error from an opera-tion as large and complex as thedecennial census, the CensusBureau attempts to control thesources of such error during thedata collection and processingoperations. The primary sourcesof error and the programs institut-ed to control error in Census 2000are described in detail in SummaryFile 3 Technical Documentationunder Chapter 8, “Accuracy of theData,” located at www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf
All statements in this Census 2000brief have undergone statisticaltesting and all comparisons aresignificant at the 90-percent confi-dence level, unless otherwisenoted. The estimates in tables,maps, and other figures may varyfrom actual values due to samplingand nonsampling errors. As aresult, estimates in one categorymay not be significantly differentfrom estimates assigned to a dif-ferent category. Further informa-tion on the accuracy of the data islocated at www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf. For furtherinformation on the computationand use of standard errors, contact
the Decennial Statistical StudiesDivision at 301-763-4242.
For More Information
Census 2000 Summary File 3 dataare available from the AmericanFactfinder on the Internet (factfind-er.census.gov). They were releasedon a state-by-state basis during2000. For information on confi-dentiality protection, nonsamplingerror, sampling error, and defini-tions, also see www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf or con-tact the Customer Services Centerat 301-763-INFO (4636).
Information on population andhousing topics is presented in theCensus 2000 brief series, locatedon the Census Bureau’s Web site atwww.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs.html.
This series, which will be complet-ed in 2003, presents informationon race, Hispanic origin, age, sex,household type, housing tenure,and social, economic, and housingcharacteristics, such as ancestry,income, and housing costs.
For additional information on geo-graphical mobility, includingreports and survey data, visit theCensus Bureau’s Internet site atwww.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/migrate.html. To findinformation about the availabilityof data products, including reports,CD-ROMs, and DVDs, call theCustomer Services Center at 301-763-INFO (4636), or e-mail [email protected].
