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RE: Accessing Census Bureau Data in 2019: Transition from American FactFinder to data.census.gov

JamiRae

agree 100%, Glenn. I am not a fan of this change. I can see the benefits to casual users, but for data folks, this is clunky and difficult. I tried to simply enter a table number into the search hoping to at least get the table then narrow down by geography…
- over 5 years ago
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Message from Douglas White

Douglas White

Can anyone tell me if the 2007-2011 Summary File Data Retrieval tool is working? I am still getting the governmental shutdown message.
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Webinar on accessing IPUMS NHGIS in R (with a focus on ACS data)

Jonathan Schroeder

IPUMS is hosting a webinar next week that may be of interest to many on this forum...

Accessing NHGIS Data in R
March 5, 2024; 1:00pm CT
Register for Free Webinar

IPUMS NHGIS provides easy access to summary tables and time series of population, housing, agriculture…
- 8 months ago
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U.S. Census Bureau Releases Documentation Supporting the 2013-2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates

R. Chase Sawyer

We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2013-2017 American Community Survey 5-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, December 6, 2018. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare…
- over 5 years ago
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RE: ACS 14-18 Poverty Status for Census Block Groups?

Jonathan Schroeder

The Census doesn't provide block-group data for either B05010 or B06012. This is the case for many of the ACS 5-year tables. You can look up which tables don't have block group data in the 2018 5-Year Appendices, available through this page:

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- over 4 years ago
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RE: Relationship table between ACS questions and AFF tables

Stas Kolenikov

This is an interesting question. The text of the question you are citing (P31) is taken from the ACS instrument. You can find a copy on the Census website, e.g., www.census.gov/.../Quest13.pdf. The weird long table numbers in the American Fact Finder…
- over 10 years ago
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Fixed Sequence_Number_and_Table_Number.xls for ACS2013_1Yr

Shi-Jen He

We script the importing of ACS summary files into SQL databases based on the Sequence_Number_and_Table_Number_Lookup.xls. In the process of importing the ACS2013_1Yr, we found that some sequence numbers and starting numbers in the lookup Excel file and…
- over 9 years ago
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RE: ZCTA Level Poverty Data, 5-Year Estimates

Bernie

I see now, the same thing is happening for me. It's happening for both Subject Tables and Detailed Tables. It seems the issue has something to do with selecting "All ZCTAs in United States" or for a given state; if you select a specific ZCTA, then other…
- over 3 years ago
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RE: Decennial Census 2000/2010 SF3 API?

Jonathan Schroeder

First, prior to the 2010 Census, the American Community Survey took the place of the decennial long form, which is the source of SF3 data, so there has never been a "2010 SF3" (unless you count the 2010 ACS Summary Files, I guess!)

But your…
- over 4 years ago
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Message from Douglas White

Douglas White

Trying to use the Summary File Data Retrieval Tool Version 1.0.0.13.3 with Office 2013 to look at 3013 5YR data, and get the following message:

Compile error in hidden module: fmrLaunch1.

Any help anyone can provide is greatly appreciated.
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