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2017 ACS Data Users Conference
More than 300 ACS data users attended the 2017 ACS Data Users Conference, held May 11-12, 2017, at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Madison Building in Alexandria, Virginia. PRB organized the conference in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau and with guidance from an ACS Data Users Group Steering Committee. The program brought together more than 50 contributed presentations by ACS data users, invited sessions with Census Bureau staff, informal roundtable discussions, and opportunities for networking.
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Thursday, May 11, 2017
Plenary Session: The American Community Survey and Census 2020: Looking Ahead
Moderator: Linda A. Jacobsen, PRB
John H. Thompson, Director, U.S. Census Bureau
Lisa M. Blumerman, Associate Director, Decennial Census Programs, U.S. Census Bureau
Victoria A. Velkoff, Chief, American Community Survey Office, U.S. Census Bureau
Census Bureau plenary.pdf
Robert Chestnut, Dissemination Communications and User Engagement Chief, U.S. Census Bureau
Chestnut.pdf
David Waddington, Chief, Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division, and Former Respondent Advocate, U.S. Census BureauWaddington.pdf
Breakout Session 1: Assessing Health Insurance Estimates with ACS Data
Moderator: Joseph J. Salvo, New York City Department of City Planning
Concordance of ACS and Administrative Counts of Medicaid/CHIP Enrollment over Time: Implications for Research and Evaluation of the Affordable Care Act Brett Fried, Kathleen Call, and Elizabeth Lukanen, State Health Access Data Assistance Center, University of Minnesota; and Michel Boudreaux, University of Maryland
Fried.pdf
Accuracy of ACS Health Insurance Estimates: Survey Reports Versus Enrollment Records Joanne Pascale, U.S. Census Bureau; Kathleen Call, State Health Access Data Assistance Center, University of Minnesota; Angela Fertig, Medica Research Institute; and Don Oellerich, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Pascale.pdf
Medicaid Under-Report in Recent ACS - An Approach for Partial Correction Wei Yen, Washington State Office of Financial Management
Yen.pdf
Breakout Session 2: Producing ACS Data Profiles for States and Local Communities
Moderator: Mark Mather, PRB
Community Partnerships: Creating Custom ACS Data Portraits for Community Organizers Carrie Koss Vallejo, Data You Can Use
Koss Vallejo.pdf
Utilizing Census Data to Develop Demographic Profiles at the Sub-County Level Maria Peña, Leslie Ray, and Sanaa Abedin, County of San Diego
Pena.pdf
Making News out of the ACS: Case Study of a Research Collaboration with a News Outlet Using ACS Data on Health Insurance Coverage David Egan-Robertson, Malia Jones, Daniel Veroff, and Caitlin McKown, Applied Population Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison
EganRobertson.pdf
Breakout Session 3: Preliminary Results from the 2016 American Community Survey Content Test
Moderator: Jennifer Ortman, U.S. Census Bureau
Overview of the Methodology of the Content Test, Broderick Oliver, U.S. Census Bureau
Health Insurance, Edward Berchick, U.S. Census Bureau
Weeks Worked, David Howard, U.S. Census Bureau
Computer and Internet Use, Camille Ryan, U.S. Census Bureau
Journey-to-Work and Commute Mode, Brian McKenzie, U.S. Census Bureau
Race & Hispanic Origin, Angela Buchanan, U.S. Census Bureau
Industry & Occupation and Class of Worker, Anthony Martinez, U.S. Census Bureau
Telephone Service, Retirement Income, & Relationship, Jennifer Ortman, U.S. Census Bureau
2016ContentTest.pdf
Breakout Session 4: Using the ACS for Model-Based Estimates
Moderator: Stanislav (Stas) Kolenikov, Abt Associates
In Health Matters, Place Matters: The Virginia Health Opportunity Index, Justin Crow and Rex Anson-Dwamena, Office of Health Equity, Virginia Department of Health
Crow.pdf
Using the American Community Survey (ACS) to Implement a Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), Liana Fox, Jose Pacas, and Brian Glassman, U.S. Census Bureau
Fox.pdf
Using ACS Microdata to Estimate SNAP and EITC Non-Participation in New York City, Ola Topczewska, Scarlett Swerdlow, Kelly Kreft, and Advik Shreekumar, Civis Analytics
Topczewska.pdf
Is It Still the Economy Stupid? A Spatial Regression Analysis of the 2016 Presidential Election Using the American Community Survey Data and Other Materials, Andrew Beveridge, Queens College CUNY and Social Explorer; Shige Song, Queens College CUNY; and Ahmed Lacevic, Social Explorer
Beveridge.pdf
Breakout Session 5: Comparing or Combining ACS Data with Other Data Sources
Using the ACS to Track the Economic Performance of U.S. Inner Cities, Austin Nijhuis, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City
Nijhuis.pdf
Visualizing and Linking ACS Census Tract Data with NYC Public School Students and Schools, Stephanie Kranes, New York City Independent Budget Office
Kranes.pdf
Constructing Measures of Household Characteristics from Administrative Data Sources and the American Community Survey: Similarities and Differences in Methods and Findings, Webb Sprague, Division of Research and Data Analysis, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Sprague.pdf
Improving Government Service Delivery with the American Community Survey, Chris Eshleman, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; and Jonathan Auerbach, Columbia University
Eshleman.pdf
Breakout Session 6: Using the ACS to Monitor Public Health
Moderator: Penelope Weinberger, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
Small Area Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage: A Local Health Department Perspective, Sanaa Abedin, Leslie Ray, and Maria Peña, County of San Diego
Abedin.pdf
Neighborhood Tabulation Areas: Triangulating the ACS with Other Data at the Small Area Level to Enhance Population Health Improvement Capacity in New York City, Tsu-Yu Tsao, Kathleen Reilly, and Anna Zhilkova, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Tsao.pdf
Utilization of ACS and Other Federal Data to Address Health Disparities in a Federally Designated Region, Whitney Zahnd, Georgia Mueller-Luckey, and Joshua Sarver, Office of Population Science and Policy, School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University
Zahnd.pdf
Improving Population Health Requires Identifying Priority Areas: The Social Determinants of Health Mapper, David Grolling, American Academy of Family Physicians; Mark Carrozza and Jené Grandmont, HealthLandscape
Grolling.pdf
Breakout Session 7a: Impact of ACS Methods/Design on Data Quality (Intermediate/Advanced)
The Impact of the Undercount of Young Children in the Census on Poverty Estimates from the American Community Survey, William O’Hare, O’Hare Data and Demographic Services, LLC
O'Hare.pdf
Restating Earnings in Common-Year Terms When Combining Multiple ACS PUMS Files, David Gibson, Vocational Economics, Inc.
Gibson.pdf | Gibson_handout.pdf
Breakout Session 7b: Impact of ACS Methods/Design on Data Quality (Novice/Intermediate)
Moderator: Lance George, Housing Assistance Council
As Time Goes By: How Period Data Influence the Estimates of Recently Arrived Immigrants in the American Community Survey, Luke Larsen, Elizabeth Grieco, and Howard Hogan, U.S. Census Bureau
Larsen.pdf
What Do Margins of Error Tell Us About Small Area ACS Data?, Ken Hodges, Claritas
Hodges.pdf
Friday, May 12, 2017
Plenary Session: Looking Ahead: Meeting ACS Data User Needs
David Hubble, Senior Statistician, Westat
Hubble.pdf
Joseph J. Salvo, Director, Population Division, New York City Department of City Planning
Jason R. Jurjevich, Assistant Professor, Portland State University
Jurjevich.pdf
Lance George, Director of Research and Information, Housing Assistance Council
George.pdf
Emilia Istrate, Director of Research and Outreach, National Association of Counties
Penelope Weinberger, CTPP Program Manager, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
Stanislav (Stas) Kolenikov, Senior Scientist, Abt Associates
Kolenikov.pdf
Mark Mather, Associate Vice President, U.S. Programs, PRB
Mather.pdf
Breakout Session 8: Best Practices for Mapping ACS Data
Moderator: Jason R. Jurjevich, Portland State University
Towards Standards in Mapping ACS Data, Joel Alvarez and Joseph Salvo, New York City Department of City Planning
VIDEO | Alvarez.pdf
Can We Map ACS Data with "Confidence?" David Wong and Min Sun, George Mason University
VIDEO | Wong_D.pdf
Breakout Session 9: Case Studies: Data Visualization Tools
Moderator: Emilia Istrate, National Association of Counties
Democratizing Open Data - Making Data Accessible Through Interactive Data Visualizations Anne Pickford Cahill, County of Fairfax, Virginia
VIDEO | PickfordCahill.pdf
Visualizing ACS Data to Support Regional Policy and Economic Development Jami Dennis, Maricopa Association of Governments
VIDEO | Dennis.pdf
Breakout Session 10: New ACS Applications and Resources
Using ACS Data to Study the 2016 Election in the Classroom: A Case Study from Bucknell University Todd Suomela, Janine Glather, and Carrie Pirman, Bucknell University
VIDEO | Suomela.pdf
New Additions and Updates on the ACS Website Justin Keller, U.S. Census Bureau
VIDEO
Breakout Session 11: ACS Data for Tribal Areas and Rural Communities
Using ACS Data to Explore Native American Populations: A Closer Look at Tribal Tracts Keith Wiley and Christina Davila, Housing Assistance Council
VIDEO | Wiley.pdf
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Disability among Medicare Beneficiaries in Rural Communities: ACS 2012-2015 Shondelle Wilson-Frederick, Loida Tamayo, Elsa Haile, and Cara James, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
VIDEO | WilsonFrederick.pdf
Breakout Session 12: Tools: Novice/Intermediate
Data USA: Using Census Data to Create Data-Driven Narratives Jonathan Speiser, Datawheel LLC
VIDEO | Speiser.pdf
Populations at Risk - A Free Automated Web-Based Tool Patty Gude, Ray Rasker and Scott Story, Headwaters Economics
VIDEO | Gude.pdf
State Data Centers: The Census Bureau's Premier Local Partners Gregg Bell, University of Alabama
VIDEO | Bell.pdf
Reduce Steps to Save Consumer Dollars: Delivering Ready-to-Use ACS Data for Sophisticated Data Consumers Jan Vink, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER)
VIDEO | Vink.pdf
Breakout Session 13: Tools: Advanced
ACS Data Resources from the Missouri Census Data Center John Blodgett and Glenn Rice, Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis, University of Missouri
VIDEO | Blodgett.pdf
Supplemental Geography for ACS Microdata from IPUMS Jonathan Schroeder, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
VIDEO | Schroeder_J.pdf
Mapping ACS Data in R with Choroplethr Ari Lamstein, Lamstein Consulting LLC
VIDEO | Lamstein.pdf
Leveraging Linked Data: Semantic Web Technologies Applied to ACS Data Jonathan Ortiz, data.world
VIDEO | Ortiz.pdf
Breakout Session 14: Applications of ACS Data for Estimates and Forecasts
Moderator: Linda Jacobsen, PRB
ACS Data in Population Estimates and Forecasts: Practical Considerations and Extensions Matt Schroeder and Todd Graham, Metropolitan Council – Twin Cities
VIDEO | Schroeder_M.pdf
Challenges in Using PUMS to Generate Small Area Demographic Multipliers to Assess Development Impacts Sidney Wong, Community Data Analytics
VIDEO | Wong_S.pdf
Estimating Distributions for Populations Within Nested Geographies with Public-Use Data Matthew Simpson and Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri; Scott Holan, University of Missouri/U.S. Census Bureau; and Jonathan Bradley, Florida State University
How ACS Commuting Data Can Make Smart Cities Smarter Peter Viechnicki, Deloitte Center for Government Insights
VIDEO | Viechnicki.pdf
Breakout Session 15: Applications of ACS/CTPP Data for Transportation and Planning
Assessing the Utility of the 2006-2010 CTPP Five-Year Data Cemal Ayvalik, Cambridge Systematics; Kevin Tierney, Independent Consultant; and Penelope Weinberger, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
VIDEO | Ayvalik.pdf
Using Published Margins of Error While Aggregating CTPP Tables and for Sensitivity Analysis Jianzhu Li and Tom Krenzke, Westat
VIDEO | Li.pdf
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Commuting Patterns in Southern California Using ACS PUMS, CTPP and LODES Jung Seo, Frank Wen, Simon Choi, and Tom Vo, Southern California Association of Governments
VIDEO | Seo.pdf
Using ACS Data for Market Segmentation of Households and Employment in North Central Texas Regional Travel Model Kathleen Yu, Liang Zhou, and Arash Mirzaei, North Central Texas Council of Governments
VIDEO | Yu.pdf