Description: Population data was obtained from the American Fact Finder website via downloading table P1 from PL 94-171 - 2010 Redistricting Data Summary File for the geographic exent of Shasta County. Data was downloaded as .csv file format then converted to be joined to the Block Group boundaries.PUBLIC LAW 94-171 AND THE 2010 CENSUS REDISTRICTING DATA PROGRAMPublic Law 94-171, enacted in 1975, directs the Census Bureau to make special preparations to provideredistricting data needed by the 50 states.1 It specifies that within a year following Census Day, the CensusBureau must send the governor and legislative leadership in each state the data they need to redrawdistricts for the United States Congress and state legislature.To meet this legal requirement, the Census Bureau set up a program that affords state officials anopportunity before each decennial census to define the small areas for which they wish to receive censuspopulation totals for redistricting purposes. Officials may receive data for voting districts (e.g., electionprecincts, wards) and state house and senate districts, in addition to standard census geographic areassuch as counties, cities, census tracts, and tabulation blocks. State participation in defining areas isvoluntary and nonpartisan.For further information on P.L. 94-171 and the 2010 Census Redistricting Data Program, see.SUBJECT CONTENTThis product contains summary statistics on population and housing subjects derived from questions onthe 2010 Census questionnaire. Population counts for the total population and for the population 18 yearsand over are presented in four tables:• A count of all persons by race.• A count of the population 18 years and over by race.• A count of Hispanic or Latino and a count of not Hispanic or Latino by race for all persons.• A count of Hispanic or Latino and a count of not Hispanic or Latino by race for the population 18 yearsand over.
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