Here's an update from the American Community Survey: This handbook describes the data products available from the ACS and how to access them. Examples are provided with step-by-step instructions on accessing the data. The ACS Compass Products handbooks may be found at: http://www.census.gov/acs/www/UseData/Compass/compass_series.html
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/UseData/Compass/compass_series.html
ACS Compass Products
Over the next six months, the Census Bureau will be releasing a series of handbooks, a set of presentations, and an e-learning tutorial to provide guidance to users on how to understand and best use ACS data. This set of educational materials is called the ACS Compass Products.
Today marks the first release of ACS Compass Products and includes the following two audience-specific handbooks in PDF format:
Community Indicators for Your Community
Real, lasting community change is built around knowing where you are, where you want to be, and whether your efforts are making a difference. Indicators are a necessary ingredient for sustainable change. And the process of selecting community indicators -- who chooses, how they choose, what they choose -- is as important as the data you select.
This is an archive of thoughts I had about indicators and the community indicators movement. Some of the thinking is outdated, and many of the links may have broken over time.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
American Community Survey Alert
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