Summary
Contents
Subject index
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.
Mapping and GIS
Mapping and GIS
Introduction
Maps are a natural way for visualizing and studying census data. They provide important geographic context in orienting and displaying data, so we can see where all the counties are or can understand what a census tract is. Maps also allow us to study census data in geographic space. Instead of simply listing, sorting, and ranking data on home values or unemployment in a table or summarizing distributions in a graph, we can actually see how this data is distributed across space to illustrate patterns of concentration or dispersion and to identify differences between and within places.
The Census Bureau facilitates map-making and geographic analysis via the publication of several geographic products. For every piece of census geography ...
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