I’ve got another article that’s just hit the presses. In this one I discuss the American Community Survey: how it differs from the Decennial Census, when you should use it versus other summary data sets, how to work with the different period estimates, and how to create derived estimates and calculate their margins of error. For that last piece I’ve essentially done an extended version of this old post on Excel formulas, with several different and updated examples.
The article is available via Emerald’s journal database. If you don’t have access to it from your library feel free to contact me and I’ll send you a copy (can’t share this one freely online).
Title: The American Community Survey: practical considerations for researchers
Author(s): Francis P. Donnelly
Citation: Francis P. Donnelly, (2013) “The American Community Survey: practical considerations for researchers”, Reference Services Review, Vol. 41 Iss: 2, pp.280 – 297
Keywords: American Community Survey, Census, Census geography, Data handling, Decennial census, Demographic data, Government data processing, Government information, Margins of error, Sample-based data, United States of America, US Census Bureau
Article type: Technical paper
DOI: 10.1108/00907321311326228 (Permanent URL)
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited