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Publication

What Federal Agencies Need to Know

December 2008

This handbook helps federal agencies use ACS data for eligibility determinations, allocation of funds, program parameters, and more.

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Publication

What High School Teachers Need to Know

December 2008

This handbook helps teachers learn more about how to help students grasp statistical ideas with ACS data and how to incorporate data into lesson plans.

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Working Paper

AFF-ACS Multiyear Data Release Info Sharing Session

November 26, 2008

Summarizes feedback given by participants to discuss changes to American FactFinder.

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Publication

What Congress Needs to Know

November 2008

This handbook helps congressional staff use ACS data to respond to constituent inquiries, draft floor/press statements, conduct legislative research, and more.

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Publication

What the Media Needs to Know

November 2008

This handbook helps the media learn how to search ACS data for statistics and trends with examples of how to use the ACS to uncover and enhance stories.

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Working Paper

Analysis of the 2008 Tenure Question in the American Community Survey

October 31, 2008

Summarizes results from evaluating the tenure question on the 2007 ACS Content Test.

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Publication

What the Business Community Needs to Know

October 2008

This handbook helps the business community use ACS data to find current information about market/site evaluation and consumer segmentation.

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Working Paper

Issues of Interpretation of ACS 1-, 3-, 5-Year Estimates

October 2008

Aims at aiding data users in comprehending the annual 5-year multiyear estimates.

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Working Paper

2005 American Community Survey Respondent Characteristics Evaluation

September 16, 2008

Identifies characteristics that are associated with households responding by each mode used in the ACS.

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Publication

Income, Earnings, and Poverty Data: 2007 American Community Survey

August 01, 2008

This report looks at information on income, earnings, and poverty collected in the 2007 American Community Survey (ACS).

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Working Paper

Effects of Using Minor Civil Divisions as Design Areas

June 11, 2008

Assess the impact on the distribution of the ACS sample by including MCDs as design areas when determining sampling strata assignments.

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Working Paper

Testing a New Field of Degree Question for the ACS

May 2008

Results of the proposed addition of field of degree as tested in the 2007 American Community Survey Methods Test.

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Working Paper

The Use of Population Estimates as Controls to the ACS: An Evaluation

April 11, 2008

Presents results of comparisons for the population estimates used in the C2SS.

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Working Paper

Comparison of Data from the 2005 NYC Housing and Vacancy Survey

April 08, 2008

Comparison of data on selected characteristics from the 2005 NYCHVS and 2005 ACS.

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Working Paper

A Profile of the Idle Youth in the U.S.

April 2008

The idle youth are people who do not finish school as well as people who finish school but cannot attach to the labor force.

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Working Paper

Effects of Using a Grid Versus a Sequential Form on ACS

March 06, 2008

Test provided data to help decide the format of the basic demographic section of the 2008 ACS mail form.

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Working Paper

Comparison of Data on Ancestry: Census 2000, C2SS, and 2005 ACS

January 07, 2008

Comparison of national estimates of ancestry between the C2SS and Census 2000 and 2005 ACS and C2SS.

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Working Paper

Language Use and English-Speaking Ability: ACS, C2SS, and Census 2000

2008

Comparison of national estimates of language between the 2005 ACS, Census 2000, and C2SS.

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