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Statistics, Demographics and Census: 1990 Census

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American FactFinder (no longer includes 1990 Census data)

"Tables and maps for 100 percent and sample 1990 census data for all geographies to the block group level"

1990 Census Resources

1990 Census Page

Bulletins
- Ancestry
- Education
- Employment Status
- Gender
- Hispanic Origin
- Home Heating Fuels
- Kitchen Facilities
- Language
- Marital Status
- Place of Birth
- Plumbing Facilities
- Race
- Residence in 1985
- Rooms & Bedrooms
- Telephone Availability
- Tenure
- Type of Housing
- Vehicle Availability
- Work Experience in 1989
- Year Moved In
- Year of Entry
- Year Structure Built
"We the Americans" Reports
- Asians
- Blacks
- Children
- Our Education
- Elderly
- First Americans
- Foreign Born
- Hispanics
- Our Homes
- Pacific Islanders
- Women
Resources for Selected Topics
- American Indian Population
- Ancestry
- Baby Boomers
- Cities greater than 100,000 in 1990
- Density and Land Area Measurements
- Disability Characteristics
- Estimates
- The Foreign-Born Population
- Hispanic Origin
- Journey to Work and Place of Work
- Language Use and English Ability
- Migration
- Net Population Adjustment Matrices
- Occupation by Race, Hispanic Origin and Sex
- Population, Land Area, and Poverty Data for 1990 Census Tracts

Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses from 1790 to 2000

Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses from 1790 to 2000
Call Number: U.S. Documents Collection C 3.2:M 46/2
Publication Date: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2002/dec/pol_02-ma.html
provides questionnaires and instructions, plus individual histories of each census. Pages 119-124 provide tables showing the "Population Items on Principal Census Questionnaires: 1790-2000."

Enumeration Forms (IPUMS USA)
"contains facsimile copies of the enumeration forms used in the decennial census of the United States from 1860 through 2000, and the American Community Survey (2000+)."

Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 by William Thorndale & William Dollarhide
Call Number: UCF Main Library Reference - 2nd Floor -- G1201.F7T5 1987
"shows county outline maps at ten year intervals, the old county boundaries being superimposed over the modern lines"

Census geography: Bridging data from prior years to the 2010 tract boundaries
provides "a Longitudinal Tract Data Base (LTDB), which provides public-use tools to create estimates within 2010 tract boundaries for any tract-level data (from the census or other sources) that are available for prior years as early as 1970."