Deriving ACS Estimates without an existing MOE

Diana Benitez over 9 years ago

I'm trying to map the comparison between ACS 2005 - 2009 to ACS 2006 - 2010 using statistical significance with the formula recommended by the Census. This formula requires that I use estimates and margins of error. The ACS 05-09 (Census 2000) and ACS 06-10 (Census 2010) geographies do not match and cannot map. I know that ACS has relationship files that I can use to relate the geographies and estimates. But how do I relate the margins of error?

Thank you.

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Lisa Neidert over 9 years ago

Diane,

You can't make this comparison because of the overlapping years. But, here's how to produce new margins of error based on concatenated geographies:

Tool: www.psc.isr.umich.edu/.../
Instructions: www.psc.isr.umich.edu/.../ACS_Aggregator.pdf

And, here's an intro into the noisiness of ACS data and why you might want to combine geographies:

www.psc.isr.umich.edu/.../

Note: This is an old document so it refers to some events that have happened (increased ACS sample size).
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Lisa Neidert over 9 years ago

Diane,

You can't make this comparison because of the overlapping years. But, here's how to produce new margins of error based on concatenated geographies:

Tool: www.psc.isr.umich.edu/.../
Instructions: www.psc.isr.umich.edu/.../ACS_Aggregator.pdf

And, here's an intro into the noisiness of ACS data and why you might want to combine geographies:

www.psc.isr.umich.edu/.../

Note: This is an old document so it refers to some events that have happened (increased ACS sample size).
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