ASA 2017 Course: Incorporating ACS and US Census Data into Undergraduate Courses

Helpful links

Files for Today
Presentation: Goals and Why Teach with Data (pdf)
Presentation: Brief Overview of ACS
Intro to WebChip (Jill): Module 1 (doc), Module 2 (doc)
Begin Developing Your Own Modules: Module Template (docx)
Demand for Quantitative Literacy in Sciences: Nature Neuroscience: Erroneous Analyses (pdf)

More Information on ACS from the Census Bureau
ACS Information Guide (pdf)
Census through Time (pdf)
How the ACS Works (pdf)
ACS Community (pdf)
ACS Design Methodology Report (pdf)

Datasets
Census Bureau 2014 5-year PUMS Documentation
ACS 2014 5-year PUMS repackaged for Education (~3GB) (SAS)
ACS 2014 5-year PUMS sub-sample (~700MB) (SAS)(Stata)(SPSS)
ACS 2014 5-year PUMS sub-sample (~60MB) (SAS) (Stata)(SPSS)
ACS 2014 5-year PUMS sub-sample (~6MB) (SAS)(Stata)(SPSS)
ACS 2014 5-year PUMS EARN.dat (~500MB) (SAS)(Stata)(SPSS)

ACS Compass Guides

• Researchers (pdf)
• American Indian & Alaskan Native Data (pdf)
• Rural Area Data Users (pdf)
• General Users (pdf)
• Teachers/Instructors (pdf)
• Media (pdf)

SSDAN Resources
WebCHIP4: http://ssdan.net/datacounts/webchip/
PIPS: http://pips.ssdan.net/

Segregation Slideshow on Salon.com: http://www.salon.com/2011/03/29/most_segregated_cities/slide_show/1

Other Tools for Accessing ACS Data
Social Explorer: http://www.socialexplorer.com/
ESRI Tapestry: http://www.esri.com/landing-pages/tapestry
Census Reporter: http://censusreporter.org/
IPUMS: https://usa.ipums.org/usa/
NHGIS: https://www.nhgis.org/
Brookings State of Metropolitan America: http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/state-of-metropolitan-america-indicator-map
Kids Count Data Center: http://datacenter.kidscount.org/
Urban Institute Data/Viz: http://www.urban.org/data-viz
Population Reference Bureau (PRB): http://www.prb.org/
DataFinder: http://www.prb.org/DataFinder.aspx
ACS/Census: http://www.prb.org/Topics/US-Census-and-ACS.aspx

Other tools
GapMinder: http://www.gapminder.org/