Introducing ACS Data to Veterans Studies students

Author(s)

Jim Craig, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Learning Goals

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:

Each student will work on the assigned project based on data from the 2016-2020 American Community Survey (ACS). Submissions are required before class on ______. We will use that class period to review how to manipulate the ACS data, and to discuss the insights each student found.

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