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Modernizing How We Get You the Data: Data.census.gov
The U.S. Census Bureau is exploring rich new data sources and tools that will revolutionize how we produce timely and granular data on our nation's people, places, and economy.
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Monthly Trade Statistics Added to the Census API
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau is announcing the addition of monthly international trade data to the Census Application Programming Interface (API).
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Using Census Bureau Data Made Easier: New Statistical Testing Tool
With the release of the U.S. Census Bureau’s new statistical testing spreadsheet tool, we are making it easier for just about anyone to carry out statistical testing correctly.
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OnTheMap Upgrades — New Business Firm-Level Data & Reports
The Census Bureau has updated the popular OnTheMap tool. Now you can find firm-level statistics, such as firm age and firm size.
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Discover Your Neighborhood with Census Explorer
Our customers often want to explore neighborhood-level statistics and see how their communities have changed over time. Our new Census Explorer interactive mapping tool makes this easier than ever. It provides statistics on a variety of topics, such as percent of people who are foreign-born, educational attainment and homeownership rate. Statistics from the 2008 to 2012 American Community Survey power Census Explorer.
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Where Do You Want to Dwell?
America has always been a nation on the move. Whether you are looking for a career change or a new neighborhood to call home, life decisions affect each of us every day. With roughly half of Americans now owning smartphones, everyone should be able to access the wealth of statistics the Census Bureau collects to make informed decisions on the go, whether at home or on the road. What good are data if nobody but the experts can easily access them? The Census Bureau uses 21st century technology to meet its centuries-old mission, making the statistics that define our growing, changing nation more accessible to the public than ever before.
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What Languages are Spoken in Your Area?
Did you know that more than 300 different languages are spoken in the United States? A new report and mapping tool released today by the U.S. Census Bureau takes a detailed look at many of the most popular languages spoken at home in America.
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How Can Developers Use American Community Survey Statistics to Answer Real-World Questions?
Last summer, the Census Bureau launched its first application programming interface (API), giving developers access to a variety of data sets, including the American Community Survey five-year estimates. These estimates provide statistics for every neighborhood in the nation, allowing developers to create new tools to help better understand their communities and solve real world issues.
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Get the LED Out! — Easier Access to Powerful Labor Force Information
Do you need information on the changing composition of the workforce through the recent recession? Or evidence of the job creation ability of young firms? Answer questions like these and many more with the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) dataset available through the new Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Extraction Tool.
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New Ways to Find a Fact
Have you ever wondered about the median income of your hometown? Or maybe you just want to know the population. These are some of the questions our data users often ask, and it is feedback we are listening to as we continue to evolve American FactFinder from the version first released two years ago. Over the past 12 months, we have been working to improve American FactFinder based on feedback we have received since the initial launch in January 2011.
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Easy Exploration into Your Community's Statistics
Yesterday we released Easy Stats, one of the latest web technology tools developed by the U.S. Census Bureau to make our data quicker and easier to access. As its name suggests, Easy Stats provides a user-friendly way to retrieve timely statistics about our nation’s people, places and economy.
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Collecting and Maintaining our Geographic Data
The Census Bureau collects and maintains geographic data in order to take censuses and surveys and to prepare and present statistical information. We store all of our geographic data in the Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) System. The MAF/TIGER system has become an essential part of our daily operations and keeping it up-to-date and accurate is vital. So, how do we do it?
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Tracking Health Insurance Trends for Small Counties
Today, the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) program released estimates for 2010 of the number of insured and uninsured for counties and states nationwide. The program also provides a Web-based interactive tool that allows you to display and map health insurance coverage estimates for states and counties.
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Mapping at the U.S. Census Bureau
When you think of the Census Bureau, you might imagine filling out a census or survey form. Maybe you think of the billions of statistics and counts that are available. What you may not realize is that the Census Bureau is as much a geographic and cartographic agency as it is a statistical agency.
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Visualizing Income and Poverty Estimates
Recently the U.S. Census Bureau added interactive maps to the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates program’s (SAIPE) website. This web-based interactive tool allows users to select, map, and display estimates of poverty by state, county and school district, and median household income by state and county.
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Why is geography important to the Census Bureau?
Geography is at the heart of taking a census. The U.S. Census Bureau is tasked with counting everyone in the United States once every ten years, but we do not just count people; we count people where they live. Here are several reasons why geography is important to the Census Bureau.
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A Bird's Eye View
The Census Bureau has begun releasing local-level 2010 Census population counts, delivering the data on a state-by-state rolling basis through March. These data include official census population totals, as well as data on race, Hispanic or Latino origin and voting age for multiple geographies within each state.
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OnTheMap Connects Where People Work and Where Workers Live
In a world of economic uncertainties, innovative products from the U.S. Census Bureau help job seekers, employers and economic planners get an in-depth look at their local job market. OnTheMap is an interactive mapping tool that allows both novice and experienced computer users to create, print and download workforce related maps, charts, profiles and reports.
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New American FactFinder
In January 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau plans to launch a revamped version of its data delivery tool, American FactFinder. The new American FactFinder will offer a new look, new tools and easier access to Census Bureau information.
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