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50 Largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas--Population by Race and Hispanic Origin: 2006 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0023)

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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts. This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition) Washington, DC, 2007; http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. Census Bureau, http://censtats.census.gov/usa/usa.shtml

U.S. Census Bureau,

USA Counties;

< http://censtats.census.gov/usa/usa.shtml >;

accessed 22 August 2007.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)
U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.php

U.S. Census Bureau,

USA Counties;

< http://censtats.census.gov/usa/usa.shtml >;

accessed 22 August 2007.

For more information:

http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.php

referenced on dataset section Notes (#2)

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File structure

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns. The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no data were changed.

    The tables that were changed:

    0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231

  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Footnotes

Notes (pg 2)

  1. The portion of Sullivan city in Crawford County, Missouri, is legally part of the St. Louis, Missouri-Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. Data shown here do not include this area.

Headnotes

[As of July 1. Covers metropolitan statistical areas as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget as of December 2005. All geographic boundaries are defined as of January 1, 2006. For definitions and components of all metropolitan and micropolitan areas, see Appendix II.

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Abilene, Texas 10180 158063 39812 61235 35422 10990 10604 25.1874252671 38.7408818003 22.4100516883 6.95292383417 6.70871741015
Akron, Ohio 10420 700943 163785 256023 187780 46160 47195 23.3663792919 36.5255092069 26.789624834 6.58541422056 6.73307244669
Albany, Georgia 10500 163961 44222 60311 40612 9996 8820 26.9710479931 36.7837473546 24.7693048957 6.09657174572 5.37932801093
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, New York 10580 850957 183989 326907 225259 54413 60389 21.6214215289 38.4163947179 26.4712553043 6.39433014829 7.0965983005
Albuquerque, New Mexico 10740 816811 205448 310887 205240 49623 45613 25.1524526482 38.061069207 25.1269877609 6.07521201355 5.58427837039
Alexandria, Louisiana 10780 150080 38526 54306 37580 10488 9180 25.6703091684 36.1847014925 25.039978678 6.98827292111 6.11673773987
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, .Pennsylvania-New Jersey 10900 800336 180381 290185 212453 53972 63345 22.5381589732 36.2578966834 26.5454759001 6.74366765958 7.91480078367
Altoona, Pennsylvania 11020 126494 27021 43445 34438 9805 11785 21.3614875014 34.3455025535 27.2250067197 7.75135579553 9.31664742992
Amarillo, Texas 11100 241515 64337 93416 56344 14016 13402 26.6389251185 38.679171066 23.3293998302 5.80336625054 5.54913773472
Ames, Iowa 11180 80145 14708 41351 15521 4030 4535 18.3517374758 51.595233639 19.3661488552 5.02838605028 5.65849397966
Anchorage, Alaska 11260 359180 95630 146608 93259 14422 9261 26.62453366 40.8174174509 25.9644189543 4.01525697422 2.57837296063
Anderson, Indiana 11300 130575 30051 45972 34387 10216 9949 23.0143595635 35.2073520965 26.3350564809 7.82385602144 7.61937583764
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accessed 22 August 2007.

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