Lab 1
I was able to find the data for the years from 1900 all the way to 2006 but I was not able to find one page that contained all of that information. There is a different page for each of the different years that we are looking for. This will make finding the data mildly time consuming. The task of finding the census of single states is I wouldn’t say easy, but it is a task that is achievable. On the U.S Census Bureau page there is mostly information about the entire United States rather than each individual state. Therefore you have to do a bit of searching to find the information that you are looking for. Also there are so many different subcategories that are involved with the population, such as the population based on race, sex, and age, this also makes it harder to find the basic census of the state. The Bureau could definitely make the individual state information easier to find…
By typing in a key word from a search engine such as Google can be a very easy or quick way to find what you are looking for on the WWW. But it can also be a tool that can lead to astray from what you are actually looking for. For example when I was searching for the Colorado census, I did in fact come across the U.S Census Bureau page as one of the first links that was available for me. So there are a lot of sites that come up that will contain the information that you are looking for.
Then there are the sites that will not have any of the information that you are looking for. The sites that come up on the search engine of your choice are websites that contain the words that you have typed in. Here is the problem, some websites will contain these words but have nothing to do with the information that you are looking for and will be useless for your research.
I found the information I was looking for on:
http://dola.colorado.gov/demog_webapps/population_census
This is the Colorado State Demography Office Homepage
The only copyright information that I could find was the fact that the information belongs to the state of Colorado. Other than that nothing.
