Population Association of America 2017 Workshop: Introducing ACS in the Classroom

Helpful links

Files for Today
Presentation: Census and ACS in the Classroom
Exercise: WebCHIP Exercise (docx)

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)
For more: Google Drive

ACS Compass Guides

SSDAN Resources
*WebCHIP: http://ssdan.net/datacounts/webchip/
*PiPS: http://pips.ssdan.net/

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 (especially SDA): http://ipums.org/
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/

Date

Apr 26 2017
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Time

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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