| Session Title |
Time (EDT) |
Moderator |
Presenter(s) |
Presentation Title |
| Welcome/ Introduction |
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM |
|
Diana Elliott, PRB
Donna Daily, U.S. Census Bureau |
Welcome/ Introduction |
| Opening Remarks |
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM |
|
Ron Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau |
Opening Remarks |
| 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 |
What’s New with the American Community Survey Program |
| How Data Users Leverage the ACS for Outcomes |
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM |
Joel Alvarez, NYC Department of City Planning |
Thomas Bryan, BryanGeoDemo
Melinda Vonstein, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission
Rodolfo Gutierrez, HACER
Bob Coats, North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management |
How Data Users Leverage the ACS for Outcomes |
| Break |
12:45 PM - 1:00 PM |
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Break |
| 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, Qiuchang Cao, Caitria DeLucchi, Rebekah Carpenter, and Dawn C. Carr, 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 |
Tyson Weister, U.S. Census Bureau
Sam Patton, U.S. Census Bureau
Maria Valdisera, U.S. Census Bureau
Caleb Hopler, U.S. Census Bureau |
Data Products Demonstration |
| 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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Break |
| 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 US Veterans Health Administration Patients |
| Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota |
The challenge of synthetic census microdata: A researcher perspective |
| Ana 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
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Remote Work and Productivity Growth 2019–2023 |
| Drew Rosebush and Oliver Leroy, CORI/RISI; Amanda Weinstein; Lindsey Elliot |
Exploring quality of life metrics at county over time |
| 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 |
Locked Out of Place: How Neighborhood Level Factors Influence Housing Discrimination Against People with Felony Convictions |
| Brandon Stanaway, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC); Seth Williams, Louisiana State University |
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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Break |
| 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, United States Census Bureau; Leann Weyl, Joy Barger, Brian Wilson, Greg Seymour, Imani Tene Morgan, and J. Taylor, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity |
Testing Improvements to ACS Response through Design: Two Experiments in the Implementation Stage |
| Benjamin Gurrentz, Anthony Knapp, and Isabelle Notter, 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, Joey Marshall, and Sandra Clark, 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
Donna Daily, U.S. Census Bureau |
Closing Remarks |