Skill
Get familiar with data from the American Community Survey
Learn how to use Census Bureau’s data website to extract demographic and socioeconomic
data
Create tables using quantitative data
Learn how to read and interpret tables displaying frequencies and percentages
Improve student’s confidence in reading and discussing data from tables
Substance
Better Understand veteran population of the nation and a state:
This at home exercise is designed to introduce students to the veteran data available in ACS to help them find demographic context to the national conversations around the veteran community.
Each student will work on the assigned project based on data from the 2016-2020 American Community Survey (ACS). Submissions are required before class. We will use that class period to review how to manipulate the ACS data, and to discuss the insights each student found.