November 03, 2005
Disaster Areas Profiled
You are missing a great tool for navigating our site if you have not tried our online knowledge base - accessible through the "Questions" link at the top of the home page. One service the tool has rendered lately is to give you a short-cut to data profiles on areas affected by the recent hurricanes. The Census Bureau follows the National Weather Service and the FEMA web sites to determine areas that may be affected or have been affected by serious storms and then creates an FAQ to highlight data from Census Bureau programs on these areas. We often create an even more prominent link on the home page to a page with data on these areas.
But you don't need a hurricane to have an excuse to try our "Questions" link. If you don't find an answer, the tool lets you submit your question and one of our agents will try to find an answer. We even have FAQs on data you think we have - which may in fact come from other statistical agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Center for Health Statistics. Questions submitted today may become the FAQs of tomorrow. If you think we need an FAQ on a subject, tell us that - by giving feedback on an existing question or just submitting it as a question on its own. Also, see Answer 989 showing demographic and economic data for some of the metropolitan areas that have received many of the displaced residents.
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