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The United States census provides researchers, students, and the public with some of the richest information available about the American people. Exploring the U.S. Census: Your Guide to America’s Data gives social science students and researchers alike the tools to understand, extract, process, and analyze data from the decennial census, the American Community Survey, and other data collected on a continual basis by the U.S. Census Bureau. Hands-on exercises at the end of each chapter help readers dive into the data. This text provides a thorough background on the data collection methods, structures, and potential pitfalls of the census in one handy guide.
The American Community Survey
The American Community Survey
Introduction
The American Community Survey (ACS) is going to be your primary source for current, detailed socioeconomic characteristics of the population and the nation’s housing units. Formally launched in 2005, it replaced the decennial census long form so that this data could be produced annually at a lesser cost. All the basic demographic variables that are published in the decennial census are included in the ACS, plus educational enrollment and attainment, veteran status, income, marital status, labor force status, place of origin and birth, commuting time to work, housing costs, detailed physical characteristics of housing units, and more. Each question in the ACS satisfies some requirement in federal law, and the data is used for distributing ...
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