Data Tips + Occasional Cubit Stuff
[UPDATE: WE NO LONGER OFFER FREE TRIALS FOR THE WEB APP] You have 2 options for figuring out which Census tracts are in your city. Important Note: What you and me and other normal people would call cities or towns, the Census Bureau calls places. Option 1. Census Tracts by City for Complex Cities (i.e. New …
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If you’re using Mara’s excellent instructions for working with Census 2010 data, you’ll need to know about Summary Levels or SUMLEVs in step 6. What are Census Summary Levels (SUMLEV)? Simple Answer: SUMLEV is a Census Bureau code to indicate geography type. For example, in the raw Census 2010 data, all states have a SUMLEV …
Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash There is no Census 2010 Long Form. I still get asked by planners and researchers about when will the Census 2010 Long Form data be released. So I hope to clear up the confusion around this topic. Bottom-line: there is no Census 2010 Long Form. It’s been replaced by …
Photo by timothy muza on Unsplash This post explains the differences between the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Decennial Census and how those differences will impact your work. Background: Long Form and Short Form Remember back to the Census 2000 when some people were complaining about the Census form taking forever to fill out? …
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Co-written by Aaron Herman Finding land use land cover data is a pain. Unless your project is within an MPO/COG that has historic and current land use shapefiles that are easy for your GIS guru to access, you can be up a creek without a paddle when it comes to finding good land use data. …
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