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Overview
• Touch base – Contact us if you need help
• Manipulation; Interpretation; Sources for quotations
• Gauge interest in future webinars– Tutorial for re-design of American FactFinder – Other topics?
• Touch on Current/Future resources• Review American FactFinder• Questions
Current News
• ACS 5-year data released on December 14th
– Links to the Distribution of the Population Across the US– Lots of national stories but plenty of room for local stories
• Simple items can paint an interesting story – Race, Hispanic, Age, Foreign born, Poverty, Education– Marriage and Family Formation; 30%+ Mortgages
• Use all of your geographies– School Districts; Congressional Districts; State legislative districts
• Trend Comparisons [19?? – 2010]
Future News
• Census 2010 Population Counts release date is December 21st – Should already have an idea of how your state will do
• Handful of states on the bubble, but there may be surprises
– Will US total population fall within Demographic Analysis estimates?• 305.7 – 312.8• 72% of difference is driven by different immigration assumptions
– Will there by any challenges to the 2010 Census?
Future News
• Re-districting– All states have to re-district, not just states that lose/gain
seats– Get a head-start by looking at ACS data on Congressional
Districts– P.L. 94-171 data released during Feb-Mar on a flow basis– Don’t forget GQ (prison) population
• Technical Link (Gerrymandering)– Tobler’s Law, Urbanization, and Electoral Bias
Future News
• Additional Releases of ACS Data – 3-year tabular data– 3-year and 5-year PUMS data– Updates to PDQ-Explore
• 2009 single year data before 2011
• Population Estimates – Down the road– Ranking stories are always interesting
• Biggest losers (population); • Highest gains (percentage); etc.• Components – births, deaths, in-migrants, outmigration, etc.