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From: "Vandenbroucke, David A" <David.A.Vandenbroucke@hud.gov> on 3/13/2008 2:33:53 PM
Subject: AHS: Enhancements to American FactFinder

Below is an email from the Census Bureau requesting suggestions for
changes in their American Factfinder web site. I am forwarding it to
the AHS list for two reasons. First, I know that many of you use
Factfinder and might have ideas about how to make it work better.
Second, you may want to suggest that Factfinder be expanded to include
AHS data. At present, the only way to produce custom AHS tables online
is to use Data Ferrett, which is cumbersome. If AHS data were available
in the Factfinder environment, more people would be able to use the
data.

Dav Vandenbroucke
Senior Economist
U.S. Dept. HUD
david.a.vandenbroucke@hud.gov
202-402-5890


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Enhanced American FactFinder (AFF) Comments Requested

The U.S. Census Bureau is enhancing the current American FactFinder
(AFF)
to add features and improve its functionality.

As users of our data, we value your input and want the enhanced AFF to
meet
as many of your needs as possible so that you can easily access and use
data available at the Census Bureau. Therefore, we would like your
input
about the new system.

We have identified a number of improvements which are described in the
link
below. Please review them and then provide up to five additional items
you
would like to see incorporated into the new system. (Note: The survey
will be available for comments beginning today, March 10 - March 31,
2008.)
Given the limited resources available for enhancing the AFF, the Census
Bureau may not be able to implement all the suggestions.

https://questionweb.com/63144/

In an effort to reach as many users as possible, please forward this
information to your colleagues and others who use data from the Census
Bureau.

Thanks for your time and input as we work together to make the AFF a
more
efficient, dynamic, and interactive data access and dissemination
system.

*******************************************
Nancy M. Gordon
Associate Director for Strategic Planning
and Innovation
U.S. Census Bureau
301-763-2126 (Office)
301-763-8150 (Fax)
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