Using this Resource
Contents
Organization and Use of this Document
Structural Content Organizational Overview
This document is organized by the left section.
Welcome through to Departments and Agencies .. generally about this document
Department and Agencies -- master list with links
Geography -- about geography and geographies
Census Bureau to U.S. Postal Service -- details about specific agency programs
Departmental agencies followed by independent agencies
linked to links shown in Departments and Agencies
first item covered is API tools provided by agency
Microdata -- data provided as microdata across agencies
Situation and Outlook -- projections to 2060 developed by ProximityOne
Demographic-Economic Data Explorer -- access to data covered here using DEDE, a ProximityOne tool
Time-Series data; e.g. chaining ACS (for example) over time
ProximityOne Terms
ProximityOne Glossary
Contents Panel at Left on Each Page
Navigate to topics of interest by clicking a topic caption in the Contents panel at the left on each page.
Click the + or - sign by a Contents topic to expand or contract list of sub-topics.
Click Index tab to look up an indexed item of interest.
Click the Search tab to key in a term and search the Guide for information on that topic.
Hide/Show Contents Panel
Click the button at left in the header section to remove viewing of the navigation pane at left. See pointer in graphic below.
On iPad this button may not be visible, click at that location anyway to produce the same result.
Buttons at Top Right of each Topic Page
Use buttons located at upper right of screen to ... navigate among topics, view topic directory, print a topic, send feedback on a topic, and auto expand/contract toggles for a topic/page.
| • | Button 1 - navigate up the Contents section at left. |
| • | Button 2 - navigate down the Contents section at left. |
| • | Button 3 - view directory for this topic (not used for most pages in this document) |
| • | Button 4 - toggle expanding text for this topic (not used for most pages in this document) |
| • | Button 5 - print this topic |
| • | Button 6 - send feedback on this topic -- we would like this!! |
URL at Bottom of Topic Page
Using most browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari) the text/link "Generate Permalink or Bookmark Topic" appears at the end of each topic page as shown in the following graphic.
Click this link to use one of three options shown in the next graphic. Click Copy Permalink to copy the URL for this topic to clipboard.
On iPad, the message Help URL: xxxx appears at the bottom of the topic page. Clicking and holding the URL generates similar options are reviewed above.