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Calculating MOEs from derived ACS estimates

Mark Mather
over 11 years ago
Over the years, we have heard from a lot of people interested in getting an easy-to-use tool that would help people calculate margins of error from derived ACS data (e.g., data combined across categories or geographies). There are several organizations that have developed some basic applications that might be useful. Here are the links:

sdcclearinghouse.wordpress.com/.../
www.psc.isr.umich.edu/.../
pad.human.cornell.edu/.../
fyi.uwex.edu/.../
www.demography.state.mn.us/.../StatisticalCalculationsMenu.xls

If you are using a different application in your organization, feel free to post it here.
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  • over 11 years ago
    We don't use a tiered CV guideline (very good idea, though), but we use another (yet debatable) CV rule-of-thumb: if CV > 20%, you have a very unstable estimate. This is from an APDU webinar "User Perspectives on ACS 5-year Data – May 11, 2011" which can be viewed at apdu.org/.../ (scroll down the page to the above title).
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  • over 11 years ago
    We don't use a tiered CV guideline (very good idea, though), but we use another (yet debatable) CV rule-of-thumb: if CV > 20%, you have a very unstable estimate. This is from an APDU webinar "User Perspectives on ACS 5-year Data – May 11, 2011" which can be viewed at apdu.org/.../ (scroll down the page to the above title).
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