Here are the 2013 Federal Poverty Guidelines

The US Department of Health & Human Services has released the 2013 Federal Poverty Guidelines. We’ve updated both the Cubit web app as well as the Cubit Quick Reports to reflect the 2013 Federal Poverty guidelines.   Here are the 2013 Federal Poverty Guidelines. 2013 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE 48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE DISTRICT [...]

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You Should Move to New York if You Want to be a US Centenarian (aka 100+ years old)

I want to live to be 100. I don’t eat processed foods. I take cod liver oil daily. I exercise. But one factor that’s working against me reaching triple digits is that I reside in Austin, Texas rather than a blue zone. A blue zone is a “demographic and/or geographic area of the world where [...]

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Updated Income Data (ACS 2007-2011) in the Cubit application

[UPDATE 2: We've updated the Others Report! 2012-02-4 by Anthony Morales] [UPDATE: We've updated the Housing & Transportation report too! 2012-01-30 by Anthony Morales] We’ve been working on adding the most current American Community Survey data for small geographic areas (think: blocks & block groups) to the Cubit web application. The Census Bureau recently released the American [...]

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How to get Census Age Breakdown Data in One Year Increments

I’m a bit embarrassed by this tip. I recently told a custom data request customer that “the Census Bureau sources that I use don’t provide 1 year incremented age breakdown data.” But while doing some research for another client, I stumbled across a report that provides age breakdown data in one year increments. So let [...]

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How to Get US School District Population Data

Occasionally, I pull school district population data for clients as a custom data request. Here are 2 tools & 1 technique for pulling demographic data for school districts. Background While the US Census Bureau does help collect school district population data, I can’t find school district data on the Census Bureau’s website. For example while [...]

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