I think you’re absolutely right — Hispanic is not a race and we have no business treating it like one just to make everything sum to 100% for a pie chart. I include Hispanics and combinations in each race group (except White alone, non Hispanic which…
The U.S. Census Bureau is partnering with the American Statistical Association (ASA) for the Annual Data Challenge Expo. Contestants are challenged to analyze the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates using statistical and visualization…
The downside is that the "official" city statistics are based on 2010 Census numbers.But the "StatisticalAtlas" site is not that all up-to-date either. A quick look at their population count for the 91405 zip code (54,356) shows their…
True - the definitions have changed so the link I provided is probably not yet updated. My point was just to show that there are grants and federal funding opportunities that are tied to the urban/rural definitions. Additionally USDOT/FHWA has a process…
Hi Monica,
Our most important job is releasing quality data on America’s people and economy. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on American Community Survey (ACS) data collection, we made the decision earlier this year not to release standard…
Very good question. Field desc are often terrible and you would need the universe. I don't have the answer but have wanted to do a mapping with all the field names. There are pieces of the puzzle here and there but no comprehensive data dictionary.…
Busy day with the new single year 2021 estimates released!!
I was using a tidycensus R script to pull relevant data on workers working at home, total workers, and total population. Usually I go to table B08006 to get data on workers by means of transportation…
I realize this is very much off-topic, but I got an unusual question from one of my users and thought someone in this group might have suggestions.
The question:
I’m wondering if you happen to know of a [census data] source at a similar geo-scale for…
I pulled up the College enrollment in the Rexberg Micropolitan area and I include it here. It does show the typical gap between men and women enrolled.
From a quick look at data on the area, there was a second College in the area that went out of business…
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