Abstract #301604

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301604
Activity Number: 474
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 7, 2003 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Graphics
Abstract - #301604
Title: Map Design for the Census Atlas of the United States
Author(s): Trudy Suchan*+
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau
Address: 4700 Silver Hill Rd., Washington, DC, 20233-8800,
Keywords: graphics ; government statistics ; social statistics
Abstract:

Until Census 2000, the Census Bureau had not published a population and housing atlas since the 1920s. In 2001 the impact of a collection of maps, including 10-year change maps, was demonstrated in Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of U.S. Diversity (see www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/atlas.html), a prototype for the more comprehensive atlas now under way. The new Census Atlas of the United States will give a lively and coherent picture of U.S. population and housing at the turn of the 21st century (and its historical context) through plentiful maps unified by analytic text. In this paper, the focus is on design decisions for maps on demographic themes to be used by the general public. Such design decisions include making a visually appealing base map; data classification and color; legend choice for a series of related maps; screening geographic areas with small numbers; and cues for the user in map titles and other map text. Example maps primarily show the U.S. at the county scale but include maps of the largest cities and metropolitan areas with census tract detail. The impact on the project of using historical data is discussed briefly.

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