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The American Community Survey: Benefits and Challenges

open access: yesIASSIST 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]

open access: yesPLoS ONE
This 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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COGNITIVE DIFFICULTIES AMONG ASIAN AMERICAN OLDER ADULTS: RESULTS FROM THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY [PDF]

open access: goldInnovation in Aging, 2022
Abstract While Asians are the fastest growing racial group in the United States, limited research exists on their health needs, especially among older adults. Cognitive difficulties increase disease and caregiving burdens, but little is known about patterns of cognitive health among Asian American older adults.
Duy Nguyen, Rui Liu, Yookyong Lee
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Spatial Variation in the Quality of American Community Survey Estimates [PDF]

open access: yesDemography, 2016
AbstractSocial science research, public and private sector decisions, and allocations of federal resources often rely on data from the American Community Survey (ACS). However, this critical data source has high uncertainty in some of its most frequently used estimates.
Folch, DC   +3 more
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How Well Does the American Community Survey Count Naturalized Citizens? [PDF]

open access: yesDemogr 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.
europepmc   +4 more sources

synthACS: Spatial Microsimulation Modeling with Synthetic American Community Survey Data

open access: yesJournal 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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Estimating the Population Sizes of Men Who Have Sex With Men in US States and Counties Using Data From the American Community Survey

open access: goldJMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2016
Background In the United States, male-to-male sexual transmission accounts for the greatest number of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diagnoses and a substantial number of sexually transmitted infections (STI) annually. However, the prevalence and
Jeremy A. Grey   +6 more
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2010 American Community Survey Match Study

open access: gold, 2017
Using administrative records data from federal government agencies and commercial sources,the 2010 ACS Match Study measures administrative records coverage of 2010 ACS addresses,persons, and persons at addresses at different levels of geography as well as by demographiccharacteristics and response mode.
Bhaskar, Renuka, Luque, Adela
openaire   +5 more sources

Synthetic Data for Small Area Estimation in the American Community Survey [PDF]

open access: greenSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Small area estimates provide a critical source of information used to study local populations. Statistical agencies regularly collect data from small areas but are prevented from releasing detailed geographical identifiers in public-use data sets due to disclosure concerns.
Joseph W. Sakshaug   +1 more
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