Reducing uncertainty in the american community survey through data-driven regionalization. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The American Community Survey (ACS) is the largest survey of US households and is the principal source for neighborhood scale information about the US population and economy.
Seth E Spielman, David C Folch
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Estimating uncertainty in a socioeconomic index derived from the American community survey [PDF]
SSM: Population Health, 2022 Socioeconomic indexes are widely used in public health to facilitate neighborhood-scale analyses. Although they are calculated with high levels of precision, they are rarely reported with accompanying measures of uncertainty (e.g., 90% confidence ...
Francis P. Boscoe +4 more
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Comparing denominator sources for real-time disease incidence modeling: American Community Survey and WorldPop [PDF]
SSM: Population Health, 2021 Across the United States public health community in 2020, in the midst of a pandemic and increased concern regarding racial/ethnic health disparities, there is widespread concern about our ability to accurately estimate small-area disease incidence rates
Rachel C. Nethery +7 more
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The American Community Survey: Benefits and Challenges
IASSIST Quarterly, 2010 The American Community Survey: Benefits and ...
Michele Hayslett, Lynda Kellam
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Barriers to agricultural employment among African American youth: Evidence from the American Community Survey. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis paper investigates the occupational choices of African American youth in U.S. agricultural and food sectors. Using nationally representative data from the American Community Survey, we estimate a multinomial logit model to assess how socioeconomic ...
Anthony Baffoe-Bonnie +2 more
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An evaluation of the American Community Survey indicators of disability. [PDF]
Disabil Health J, 2017 Collection of data in the Census for implementing disability legislation has been continuous since 1970 although the questions used have changed several times. Concerns have been raised about the ability of the newest question set developed for the American Community Survey (ACS) to adequately represent the population with disabilities because it does ...
Altman BM, Madans J, Weeks JD.
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synthACS: Spatial Microsimulation Modeling with Synthetic American Community Survey Data
Journal of Statistical Software, 2022 synthACS is an R package that provides flexible tools for building synthetic microdatasets based on American Community Survey (ACS) base tables, allows data-extensibility and enables to conduct spatial microsimulation modeling (SMSM) via simulated ...
Alex Whitworth
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National Getis-Ord Gi*statistics datasets for select populations, 2019-2023 American community survey 5-year estimatesICPSR [PDF]
Data in BriefRacial or ethnic residential segregation is the physical separation of individuals into different neighborhoods by race or ethnicity. This selective sorting process has a large impact on the social, economic, political, and health outcomes of populations,
Cyanna McGowan +2 more
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Patterns and causes of uncertainty in the American Community Survey. [PDF]
Appl Geogr, 2014 In 2010 the American Community Survey (ACS) replaced the long form of the United States decennial census. The ACS is now the principal source of high-resolution geographic information about the U.S. population. The margins of error on ACS census tract-level data are on average 75 percent larger than those of the corresponding 2000 long-form estimate ...
Spielman SE, Folch D, Nagle N.
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How Well Does the American Community Survey Count Naturalized Citizens? [PDF]
Demogr Res, 2013 BACKGROUND Citizenship status among the foreign born is a crucial indicator of social and political incorporation, yet there are good reasons to suspect that citizenship status is inaccurately reported on U.S. surveys. OBJECTIVE This paper updates research carried out in the mid-1990s by Passel and Clark (1997) on the extent to which foreign-born ...
Van Hook J, Bachmeier JD.
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