Comparing Non-Overlapping 5 year estimates from 2006-2010 and 2011-2015

Has anyone compared non-overlapping 5-year estimates from 2006 - 2010 and 2011 - 2015 at the tract level? What has been your experience and how do you feel about the reliability of the results? I looked...
Percent Change Between two estimates from non-overlapping ACS 5 Year Surveys

Relative novice as it relates to reviewing/analyzing ACS 5 Year data. Timely insight needed to create a formula in MS Excel 2016 worksheet to calculate the percent change between two estimates from...
Best approach for minimizing error for a given year when using overlapping 5-year data?

Hi Folks, This is my first post and day on this forum. I couldn't find the answer to this question, but if there is a good thread which exists already, please point me in that direction. I am conducting...
Longitudinal Comparisons Start Year 5-year ACS

Hi: My research team is seeking input on comparing 5-year ACS data for aggregates of census tracts. Our question is whether or not we use a baseline survey year to compare to all subsequent non-overlapping...
Inflation adjustment when comparing estimates across time periods

I came across some documentation that when comparing ACS 5-year estimates, the earlier estimate needs to be adjusted for inflation. See Chapter 10 (USING DOLLAR-DENOMINATED DATA) in the following document...