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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.
Population Estimates Program
Population Estimates Program
Introduction
Many researchers are less familiar with the data generated from the Population Estimates Program (PEP), but this small dataset plays a vital role in several census programs. It’s used to estimate coverage rates for the decennial census, it’s employed for controlling estimates in the American Community Survey (ACS) and Current Population Survey (CPS), it’s a key dataset used for studying migration, and it’s often the basis for creating short-term population projections (estimates of what the population will be in the future). It was the only source of geographically detailed annual population data prior to the ACS, and it is still used in instances where better precision is needed for studying annual change for basic demographic variables such ...
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