Summary
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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.
Integrating Census Data Into Research
Integrating Census Data Into Research
Introduction
Now that we’ve covered the essentials of census data and have explored the primary datasets, we will address how to integrate census data into writing and research before moving on to more advanced topics. This chapter will cover this issue from several angles. We’ll begin with best practices for writing about census data. For example, how do you convey to a reader what a statistic means and where it comes from? How do you describe a place using census data? How do you cite a census dataset in a research paper? Once we have discussed how to write about individual census statistics, we’ll explore examples of how census data is used as the ...
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