| Session Title |
Time (EDT) |
Moderator |
Presenter(s) |
Presentation Title |
| Welcome/ Introduction |
10:00 AM -
10:15 AM |
|
Diana Elliott, PRB |
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| Donna Daily, U.S. Census Bureau |
| Opening Remarks |
10:15 AM -
10:30 AM |
|
Ron Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau |
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| What’s New with the American Community Survey Program |
10:30 AM -
11:30 AM |
Diana Ellliott, PRB |
Donna Daily, Kanin Reese, and Lacey Loftin, U.S. Census Bureau |
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| How Data Users Leverage the ACS for Outcomes |
11:30 AM -
12:45 PM |
Joel Alvarez, NYC Department of City Planning |
Thomas Bryan, BryanGeoDemo |
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| Melinda Vonstein, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission |
| Rodolfo Gutierrez, HACER |
| Bob Coats, North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management |
| Break |
12:45 PM -
1:00 PM |
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| Using the API |
1:00 PM-
2:20 PM |
Emily Harris, Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah |
Anna Vasylytsya, U.S. Census Bureau |
Streamlining ACS Data: The Case for Tidy Data |
| Fabio Correa Duran, Florida State University |
Spec Files As Tools To Maintain And Extend Acs Api Queries |
| Benjamin Taft, Higher Expectations for Racine County |
A Pipeline For Tracking Community-Defined Systems Indicators Using The Acs Api And R |
| Jan Vink, Cornell University |
A Flexible Excel Tool To Retrieve ACS Data |
| Data Products Demonstration |
1:00 PM -
2:20 PM |
Erica Maurer, New York City Department of City Planning |
Caleb Hopler, U.S. Census Bureau |
Tips for Using the ACS Website |
| Tyson Weister, U.S. Census Bureau |
data.census.gov |
| Maria Valdisera, U.S. Census Bureau |
Microdata Access Tool (MDAT) |
| Sam Patton, U.S. Census Bureau |
Census API |
| Child Care and School Enrollment |
1:00 PM -
2:20 PM |
Melanie Poulter, Tulsa Area United Way |
Elli Nikolopoulos, Laura Jimenez Parra, Rebecca H. Berger, and Gina Adams, Urban Institute |
Using the ACS and Public Data Sources to Map Public Benefits Access and Barriers in Georgia |
| Rimsha Khan, Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York |
Modeling the (Un)Affordability of Child Care and Out-of-School Care in New York City |
| Jill Walsh and Cynthia Willner, CTData Collaborative |
Using the ACS PUMS to Explore the Affordability of Market-Rate Child Care for Connecticut Families |
| Leah Clark, U.S. Census Bureau; Quentin Brummet, NORC; Christopher Cleveland, Brown University; Thurston Domina, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Paul Hanselman, Emily Penner, and Andrew Penner, University of California-Irvine; Paul Yoo, Stanford University |
Pandemic-Era Public School Disenrollment Across the Income Distribution |
| Break |
2:20 PM -
2:30 PM |
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| Synthetic Data |
2:30 PM -
3:50 PM |
Bryan Grady, South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce |
Joseph Tuccillo, Angela Cunningham, James Gaboardi, and Whitson Buck, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Using Synthetic Populations to Model Travel Burdens Among U.S. Veterans Health Administration Patients |
| Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota |
The Challenge of Synthetic Census Microdata: A Researcher Perspective |
| Ana I. Sanchez Rivera and Rae Ellis, U.S. Census Bureau |
Leveraging Instrument Test Paradata: Strategies for Managing Sensitive Data Challenges |
| Lightning |
2:30 PM -
3:50 PM |
Shondelle Wilson-Frederick, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute |
Jill Janocha Redmond and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics |
Remote Work and Productivity Growth 2019–2023 |
| Lindsey Elliott, Drew Rosebush, Amanda Weinstein, and Oliver Leroy, CORI/RISI |
Estimating County-Level Quality of Life Over Time with Census Data |
| Ilham Dehry, Greg Acs, Linda Giannarelli, and Margaret Todd, Urban Institute |
Measuring the True Cost of Economic Security: What Does It Take to Thrive, Not Just Survive, in the US Today? |
| Martha Jones, Vanderbilt University; P. Tim Bushnell, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health |
Estimating FTE Denominators for Injury Rates By State and Industry |
| Kelyvette Ortiz Fontanez, Ana I. Sanchez Rivera, and Yazmin Garcia Trejo, U.S. Census Bureau |
Developing a Low Response Score for Puerto Rico |
| John Powers, Timothy Carey, Taylor Hargrove, Robert Bowers, Emily Pfaff, and Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Aubrey Limburg and Victoria Udalova, U.S. Census Bureau; Amy Shaheen, UNC Health Alliance |
Caring for Communities: Comparing Health Care System Patient Populations to Regional Populations |
| Brian Glassman, Lizzy Pelletier, and Adrienne DiTommaso, U.S. Census Bureau |
The Inclusion of the Prison Population in Income and Poverty Estimates in the ACS |
| Diana Lavery, Alberto Nieto, and Catherine McSorley, Esri |
Assess Sensitivity to Margins of Error in Hot Spot Analysis |
| Housing |
2:30 PM -
3:50 PM |
Keith Wiley, Housing Assistance Council |
Brielle Bryan, Rice University; Seth Williams, Louisiana State University |
Locked Out of Place: How Neighborhood Level Factors Influence Housing Discrimination Against People with Felony Convictions |
| Brandon Stanaway, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) |
Household Projections Using Estimated Household Formation Rates of Overcrowded Households |
| Erik Gartland, Alicia Mazzara, and Will Fischer, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) |
Where Households Using Federal Rental Assistance Live |
| Natasha Moodie, Justin Sackey, Keith Wiley, and Lance George, Housing Assistance Council |
Heirs’ Property in High-Needs Rural Regions |
| Break |
3:50 PM -
4:00 PM |
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| Combining ACS with Other Survey or Administrative Data |
4:00 PM -
5:20 PM |
Monica Cruz, Texas Demographic Center |
Jin Yao, Steve Yoder, and Shannon Porter, Johnson County Government, KS |
Enhancing Population Estimates by Combining ACS and Local Data in Johnson County, KS |
| William Brownsberger and Regina Fink, Massachusetts State Senate |
Divergence Between ACS Reported Rent Burden and Administrative Data |
| Camila Moreno and Katy Stigers, Fahe |
Using Google Earth to Address Sampling Challenges of Manufactured Home Counts in Rural Places |
| Jeffrey Morenoff and Noah Attal, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy; Christopher Dick, Demographic Analytics Advisors |
Unaccounted Migration: How Non-Filers Affect IRS-Based Estimates of Domestic Migration |
| ACS Methods |
4:00 PM -
5:20 PM |
Tricia Ruiz, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity |
Hillary Steinberg, Leann Weyl, Joy Barger, Brian Wilson, Greg Seymour, Imani Tene Morgan, and J. Taylor, U.S. Census Bureau |
Testing Improvements to ACS Response through Design: Two Experiments in the Implementation Stage |
| Benjamin Gurrentz, Anthony Knapp, Isabelle Notter, and Mark Frame, U.S. Census Bureau |
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Planning Database and Forthcoming Updates |
| Dorothy Barth, U.S. Census Bureau |
Using Administrative Records Data in the American Community Survey: Overview and Updates |
| Luke Larsen, U.S. Census Bureau |
Continuing to Revise the Census Bureau's Low Response Score |
| Using ACS Data for Planning |
4:00 PM -
5:20 PM |
Jake Michael, Chester County (PA) Planning Commission |
Tiffany Kindratt, Mercy Obasanya, Thanayi Lambert, and Kyrah K. Brown University of Texas at Arlington; Saeideh Fallah-Fini, CalPolyPomona; Deneen Robinson, TRUTH Pregnancy Resource Center; Michael K. Lemke, UTHealth Houston, School of Public Health San Antonio |
Leveraging ACS Data to Address Racial Disparities in Maternal Health: Preliminary Quantitative Steps in a System Dynamics Group Model Building Project in Texas |
| Pei Yang Hsieh, Kate Kelsey, Jennifer Para-MacDougall, Zachary Robinson, and Mandeep Sidhu, County of Santa Clara |
Mapping ACS Demographic Data to Assess Extreme Heat Vulnerability in Santa Clara County |
| Erica Maurer, Joel Alvarez, and Peter Lobo, New York City Department of City Planning |
The Case for Greater Detail in ACS Summary File Languages |
| R. Chase Sawyer, Bethany DeSalvo, Heather King, and Joey Marshall, U.S. Census Bureau |
How is ACS Data Being Used at the Census Bureau to Support Disaster Recovery? |
| Closing Remarks |
5:20 PM -
5:30 PM |
|
Diana Elliott, PRB |
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| Donna Daily, U.S. Census Bureau |