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Creating Community Demographic Profiles

Creating Community Demographic Profiles. March 7, 2019 Jon Stiles, D-Lab calove@berkeley.edu. Soc 146AC Barrows 475. Goals: B e aware of data resources which can be used to describe the populations of different communities.

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Creating Community Demographic Profiles

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  1. Creating Community Demographic Profiles March 7, 2019 Jon Stiles, D-Lab calove@berkeley.edu • Soc146AC • Barrows 475

  2. Goals: • Be aware of data resources which can be used to describe the populations of different communities. • Understand how data relevant for constructing population profiles is collected and summarized. • Gain familiarity with one tool – SocialExplorer – that provides easy access to data collected by the Census Bureau. • Be aware of other tools and potential sources of information for understanding communities. • Know who to contact to learn more.

  3. Before We Start Take 2 minutes and write down: What are the five or ten most important “things” you would want to know about a community if you are going to try to describe it for someone who lived far away from you and that community?

  4. Goal 1: Be aware data resources which can be used to describe the populations of different communities. • Populations are about people – individuals, families, and households. • Communities are about place – neighborhoods, voting precincts, cities, and counties – where people live, play, vote, or go to school. • (Good) Data resources provide information whose origin is understood and documented, where access modes are transparent and replicable, and where consistencies and inconsistencies are clearly identified.

  5. There are LOTS of places to find data, and LOTS of different sources of those data.

  6. There are LOTS of places to find data, and LOTS of different sources of those data. I’m really only going to focus on one today

  7. Census Data Products Complete enumeration every 10 years 1 & 5 year ACS samples • ACS 5-year sample estimates are most reliable • 2012-2017 ACS 5-year now available • 2017 ACS 1-year data released September 13, 2018

  8. Census 2010: Content 10 Questions Name Sex Age Relationship (to Household Head) Hispanic Origin Race Owner/Renter Status Plus Whether each member sometimes lives/stays elsewhere Total number living in residence Probe for unreported persons Telephone contact http://www.census.gov/2010census/about/interactive-form.php

  9. Decennial* & ACS Data Content Different data may be available for different products

  10. Census and ACS Questions

  11. Census data are collected for and aggregated to one or more census geographies Communities and Place in Census

  12. Goal 2: Understand how data relevant for constructing population profiles is collected and summarized. • We are constantly observed and recorded in our daily lives and activities. Some common traces that individuals leave in records include transactional records (supermarket scanning data, amazon purchases), administrative records (birth certificates, property sales, SNAP receipt), and social media records (tweets, posts). These records are NOT collected with the primary intent of describing the populations that they record – that collection is usually a side effect. • Other kinds of data are collected with the specific intent of description and inference. These are very commonly surveys or censuses, but also include various kinds of observational collections. • ----

  13. Behind the scenes:Sampling Frames (Household Surveys) • Master Address File (MAF) • Official inventory of known living quarters • Linked to TIGER • Housing Units • Based on prior Census MAF and updates from the USPS’ Delivery Sequence File • Group Quarters • updates from the administrative records and the FSCPE

  14. Behind the scenes:Sampling Frames (Geography/Other) • Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system (TIGER) • Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) • Annual; legally defined geographies • Population Estimates • Based on Vital statistics data, IRS migration, Medicare enrollment data

  15. Broad Data Collections American Community Survey • Annual • Replacement for the “long form” of the decennial census. • HH sample fully implemented in January 2005, annual sample of around 3 million. • Multi-mode: mail, CATI, CAPI • Multiple Data releases – 1 year, 3 year, 5 year, PUMS

  16. Goal 2: Understand how data relevant for constructing population profiles is collected and summarized.

  17. Basic Census Geography

  18. Legal/ Administrative Entities

  19. Statistical Entities

  20. ACS 3 yr product discontinued!

  21. Goal 3: Gain familiarity with one tool – SocialExplorer – that provides easy access to data collected by the Census Bureau. www.socialexplorer.com

  22. Let’s get some data... SocialExplorer.com

  23. Goal 4: Be aware of other tools and potential sources of information for understanding communities.

  24. Key Online Census Data Resources

  25. nhgis.org is a sibling of IPUMS, but provides access to historical aggregate data. In additional to data, they provide harmonized shapefiles that can be used by GIS software.

  26. Thank You!

  27. Archives: Academic ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) is a membership-based organization which collects data from individual researchers, polling agencies, and governmental and international agencies. Data set cover areas such as political attitudes and behavior patterns, crime and criminal justice, state and national voting records, election studies, census enumerations, economic behavior, family studies, and social atttitudes. (www.icpsr.umich.edu) Roper Center: The Roper Center archives data from thousands of surveys with national adult, state, foreign, and special subpopulation samples conducted by Gallup, NORC, CBS, ABC, Harris, the LA Times, the NY Times, and many other polling organizations. Polls are available from as far back as the mid-1930’s. (www.ropercenter.uconn.edu )

  28. Archives: Distributed http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/ http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/faces/site/BrowseDataversesPage.xhtml?initialSort=Released

  29. Government: BLS http://www.bls.gov/data/

  30. Government: USDA

  31. NCES: Data Access http://nces.ed.gov/edat/

  32. Government: NCHS http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/surveys.htm

  33. Government: BEA

  34. OECD: PISA http://www.oecd.org/pisa/ http://www.asdfree.com/2013/12/analyze-program-for-international.html

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