Exploring the U.S. Census
eBook - ePub

Exploring the U.S. Census

Your Guide to America’s Data

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Exploring the U.S. Census

Your Guide to America’s Data

About this book

Exploring the U.S. Census gives social science students and researchers alike the tools to understand, extract, process, and analyze data from the decennial census, the American Community Survey, and other data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. Donnelly?s text provides a thorough background on the data collection methods, structures, and potential pitfalls of the census for unfamiliar researchers, collecting information previously available only in widely disparate sources into one handy guide. Hands-on, applied exercises at the end of the chapters help readers dive into the data.

Along the way, the author shows how best to analyze census data with open-source software and tools. Readers can freely evaluate the data on their own computers, in keeping with the free and open data provided by the Census Bureau. By placing the census in the context of the open data movement, this text makes the history and practice of the census relevant so readers can understand what a crucial resource the census is for research and knowledge.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Publisher Note
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Brief Contents
  8. Detailed Contents
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Contributors
  12. Foreword
  13. Part I Census Fundamentals
  14. 1 Placing the Census in Context
  15. 2 Dive Into The Data
  16. 3 Census Geography
  17. 4 Subject Characteristics
  18. Part II The Primary Datasets
  19. 5 The Decennial Census
  20. 6 The American Community Survey
  21. 7 Population Estimates Program
  22. 8 Business Datasets
  23. 9 Integrating Census Data Into Research
  24. Part III Advanced Topics
  25. 10 Mapping and GIS
  26. 11 Census Data Derivatives
  27. 12 Historical Data and Microdata
  28. References
  29. Index