Webinar May 15
May 15, 1pmET, join us for a webinar for app developers interested in the American Community challenge using ACS data in the National Day of Civic hacking. See http://go.usa.gov/T6bW for details.
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May 15, 1pmET, join us for a webinar for app developers interested in the American Community challenge using ACS data in the National Day of Civic hacking. See http://go.usa.gov/T6bW for details.
Mash up ACS demographic characteristics with business data from County Business Patterns for key services to determine underserved areas. Like this: http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/special/CBP2009/CBP2009_PeoplePerDocOffice.pdf
The statistics from the 1990 and 2000 censuses join the previously available data sets from the 2010 Census and the American Community Survey. In addition, 2011 American Community Survey estimates for the new districts formed for the 113th Congress are also now available.
Relationship files are provided as a tool to help you compare the universe of Census geographies from the 1990, 2000 and 2010 Censuses. See http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/relationship.html
Department of Labor has added Census API access to their SDK for iOS. See
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Now that 2007-2011 ACS 5 year data is available in the API, please see this guidance on comparing ACS data. http://www.census.gov/acs/www/guidance_for_data_users/comparing_data/ From the page: The Census Bureau recommends that you: DO compare estimates from non-overlapping periods, for example, compare a 2005-2007 ACS 3-year estimate to a 2008-2010 ACS 3-year estimate. DON'T compare overlapping periods, for example, ...more »
Now that 2007-2011 ACS 5 year data is available in the API, please see this guidance on comparing ACS data.
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/guidance_for_data_users/comparing_data/
From the page:
The Census Bureau recommends that you:
DO compare estimates from non-overlapping periods, for example, compare a 2005-2007 ACS 3-year estimate to a 2008-2010 ACS 3-year estimate.
DON'T compare overlapping periods, for example, the 2005-2007 ACS 3-year estimates to the 2006-2008 ACS 3-year estimates.
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