Tutorial 4: Working with Search Results
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- Welcome to the American FactFinder Working with Search Results Tutorial.
- In this Tutorial, we will demonstrate:
- The relationship between Your Selections and the displayed search results;
- How Your Selections affects the available search options;
- How to use Search within Results to modify your search results;
- How to select one or more data products to view or download; and
- How to remove search criteria from Your Selections.
- After viewing the Working with Search Results Tutorial, you will be able to manage your search results in American FactFinder.
- To begin, navigate to the American FactFinder main page at factfinder2.census.gov.
- Click 'Search' to display the Search Results Page.
- It is important to understand the relationship between Your Selections and search results.
- When the Your Selections box is empty, the Search Results Page displays all of the data products available in the system.
- Notice the number of data products currently available.
- When search criteria are added or removed from the Your Selections box, the Search Results Page updates, showing data products relevant to your search criteria.
- Let's look at an example.
- Under 'Topics' on the left navigation bar, click Program.
- Next, click Population Estimates.
- Notice the following:
- Population Estimates has been added to Your Selections.
- The number of search results has been reduced.
- Population Estimates has been removed from the Topic Navigation.
- The search results are updated, showing data products relevant to the search topic Population Estimates.
- You can further refine your search results using the 'Search within Results' text box.
- Enter Demographic in the 'Search within Results' text box and click GO.
- Notice the following:
- The keyword Demographic has been added to Your Selections.
- The Search Results have updated, showing only those data products matching Demographic and Population Estimates.
- The Topics on the left navigation bar now show only those options applicable to the displayed search results.
- Let's take a closer look at the search results.
- Sort your search results by clicking on any of the column headers.
- To select products to view or download, click the check boxes next to your desired data products.
- Once you have made your selections, you can View or Download the selected products.
- Let's take another look at Your Selections.
- You can easily modify your search results by removing a single item or all of the items displayed in the Your Selections box.
- To remove a single item, click on the Remove button next to the search item you would like to remove.
- For this demonstration, let's remove all of the items in Your Selections.
- Click on 'clear all selections' in the Your Selections box.
- A message displays indicating that Your Selections is empty.
- The full list of all data products available displays.
- This concludes the Working with Search Results Tutorial.
- In this tutorial, you learned:
- About the relationship between Your Selections and the displayed search results;
- How Your Selections affects the available search options;
- How to use Search within Results to modify your search results;
- How to select one or more data products to view or download; and
- How to remove search criteria from Your Selections.
- For more information visit American FactFinder at factfinder2.census.gov.
