out of their census

[calimac]

I'm having a dispute with the U.S. Census Bureau. Maybe you can help resolve it.

Go to this census website. See the little map of the U.S. states? Pick one and click on it.

You'll get a page with a table listing various population segment numbers for that state. At the top of table is a link with the text "Want more? Browse data sets for Moosylvania," or whatever state it may happen to be. Click on that.

Now you get a list of tables. A little way down, under "Census 2000 population, demographic, and housing information," is "Population by Race and Hispanic or Latino origin," with two tables linked from it, one for counties and one for places.

Click on either of those.

What do you get?

What I get, in any browser I've tried, on either my computer or B's, is an error message from the browser saying it can't be found.

The Census Bureau tells me the tables are right there, there's no problem with them.

I used to get them, but sometime last year I first got the error message, and I've gotten it whenever I've tried it ever since.

Comments

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Same here. "Firefox can't find the server at factfinder2.dads.census.gov."

[pyffe.livejournal.com]

I get 404 errors on both for PA.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

Me four.

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

Doesn't work for me, either (using Firefox).

[(Anonymous)]

I get "This page can't be displayed" in Explorer and "Server not found. Firefox can't find the server at factfinder2.dads.census.gov." in Firefox.
-MTD/neb

[irontongue.livejournal.com]

404 as follows:

Oops! Google Chrome could not find factfinder2.dads.census.gov

[mithriltabby]

It’s linking to factfinder2.dads.census.gov, which is not known to the domain name system at my employer. Annoyingly, the whois query for census.gov won't tell me which name servers should know about factfinder2. If they just changed things around in the past 24 hours, it might not have had time to propagate, but it's possible someone failed to publish the address at all outside some government firewall.

Is Moosylvania the result of Bullwinkle marrying Natasha and renaming Pottsylvania after she masterminds his rise to power there as dictator?

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

It wasn't within the last 24 hours. It was sometime last year. I've since heard from someone else at the Census Bureau, who explains that what happened was that they removed a legacy redirect page, and that the proper root website is factfinder2.census.gov without the "dads" in it. But how was I supposed to know that?

Moosylvania makes several appearances in Rocky. It's an island between the U.S. and Canada that each country insists belongs to the other.

[k6rfm.livejournal.com]

Definitely hosed, but I found where it's hiding. After you get the not found, go up and remove the "dads.' from the url. Or, just go to factfinder2.census.gov and it will give you a different set of menus that seem to lead to the same stuff.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I've used factfinder2, but how on earth you get any information out of it other than simply typing in a single place name in the big "Community Facts" box I cannot figure out. The "Guided Search" and "Advanced Search" algorithms totally baffle me.