Start Date

19-8-2014 9:00 AM

End Date

19-8-2014 10:15 AM

Location

Lecture Hall (Room 101)

Description

This presentation features: Terminology & Definitions; Census Datafiles; ACS Data are Released Based Upon the Population of the Geographic Unit; Questionnaires & Concepts; How does CPAR typically analyze race/ethnicity?; Geography; FactFinder Address Search Page & Results; Geography vs. Data (A Duel); Relationship between Data/Datafiles and Geography; PUMA geography; The American Community Survey: What is it?; ACS Methodology in Brief; ACS New Subject Areas; Point Estimates, MOE and Confidence Intervals; Multi-year Aggregate Estimates: Advantages; ACS Sample Size Increase Began in 2011 and Continues!!; 2012 ACS Data to be released later in 2014; The 2009 ACS Nebraska “Double Whammy”; Population Estimates Program: Basics, Census Methodology in Brief, and Its Importance; Estimates Program Data; and Bottomline: Ask yourself these questions.

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Aug 19th, 9:00 AM Aug 19th, 10:15 AM

Census Overview: Basics, ACS, and Estimates

Lecture Hall (Room 101)

This presentation features: Terminology & Definitions; Census Datafiles; ACS Data are Released Based Upon the Population of the Geographic Unit; Questionnaires & Concepts; How does CPAR typically analyze race/ethnicity?; Geography; FactFinder Address Search Page & Results; Geography vs. Data (A Duel); Relationship between Data/Datafiles and Geography; PUMA geography; The American Community Survey: What is it?; ACS Methodology in Brief; ACS New Subject Areas; Point Estimates, MOE and Confidence Intervals; Multi-year Aggregate Estimates: Advantages; ACS Sample Size Increase Began in 2011 and Continues!!; 2012 ACS Data to be released later in 2014; The 2009 ACS Nebraska “Double Whammy”; Population Estimates Program: Basics, Census Methodology in Brief, and Its Importance; Estimates Program Data; and Bottomline: Ask yourself these questions.