Information Resources

U.S. Office of Management and Budget Statistical Policy Statements and Regulations

Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas
OMB designated Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas on June 6, 2003 with an effective date of June 30, 2003. The New York State Department of Transportation has prepared a summary of these concepts and designations.

Standards for Defining Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas (December 27, 2000)

Final Report and Recommendations From the Metropolitan Area Standards Review Committee to the Office of Management and Budget Concerning Changes to the Standards for Defining Metropolitan Areas (August 22, 2000)

Recommendations from the Metropolitan Area Standards Review Committee to the Office of Management and Budget Concerning Changes to the Standards for Defining Metropolitan Areas (October 20, 1999)

Alternative Approaches to Defining Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas (December 21, 1998) PDF version or HTML version of text

 

Data on Race and Ethnicity
Federal Register Notice: Provisional Guidance on the Implementation of the 1997 Standards for Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (January 16, 2001, Volume 66, Number 10, pages 3829-3831)

Provisional Guidance on the Implementation of the 1997 Standards for Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity  (December 15, 2000)

Appendix A, Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity  

Appendix B, Guidance on Aggregation and Allocation of Data on Race for Use in Civil Rights Monitoring and Enforcement 

Appendix C, The Bridge Report: Tabulation Options for Trend Analysis

Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (October 30, 1997)

Recommendations from the Interagency Committee for the Review of the Racial and Ethnic Standards (July 9, 1997)

Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (August 1995)

The Other Data Resource Links page contains links to the Census Bureau's PDF Publications containing population and economic data for New York State.

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