These links are to pages that we (and many of our colleagues in the same business) have found to be extremely useful. The kind we all have bookmarked, and that you tend to see on all the demographic links pages. There are a lot of the latter about, and this is an extremely short list, compared to what it could be. If you want a more exhaustive list, I would suggest trying the MSCDC links page to other population and housing sites or to Larry Schankman's page, referenced below. There's an awful lot of good ones out there.

• Census Bureau A-Z Page
  This is maybe a better place to start at the Bureau's site than with their home page. It's amazing how often I have been able to find just what I needed using this page. Very well done.

• FEDSTATS
  More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use. As with the Census Bureau's web site, probably the best place to go once you get there is their A-Z Search page.

• Geospatial and Statistical Data Center (GEOSTAT) at the University of Virginia library. This site provides a wide assortment of tools and resources related to working with geospatial data. Includes interactive access to PUMS data from the 1990 census. Excellent site for GIS resources and links.

• Archive of Census Related Products at CIESIN/SEDAC
  Hendrik Meij and I began this project with the intent to create a place where you could get easy to use polygon boundary files with easy-to-link key demographic indicators from the 1990 Census. What started out as our "hobby project" became much more serious when Henk moved to CIESIN in 1993. The 'archive' is now a fairly extensive collection of census-related data. This page contains the necessary overview to find and comprehend things, and includes a link (last row, last column) to the actual FTP site where you can transfer the data. Lots of good stuff here, but not always as easy to find as it might be. For example, a complete collection of 1980 STF3 data sets.

• Larry Schankman's Links Page
  It's not just because Larry included our UIC site as one of the best starting points for access to Census and Demographic data that I like his page. It is just so detailed and all-inclusive. And I tend to agree with most of his choices.

• Government Info Sharing Project
  Well funded site with some very nice applications. It's like having a whole bunch of the Census Bureau's cd-roms and access software but accessible via the web. Access the Economic Census data, REIS, the School District Data Book, EEO Data, etc. Can be a little slow (the typical drawback with very popular sites.)

• Missouri Statistical Abstract
  Liked this better before they went to all PDF format. But still an incredible amount of useful data about the state and its counties. Lots of economic stuff, most of it time series going back further than you'll care to.