Posted in Population, tagged American Community Survey, foreign born population, maryland, maryland institute college of art, Population growth, United States Census Bureau on May 3, 2013| 1 Comment »
MDP graphic design intern, Sol Moon, worked with Mark Goldstein to produce the following infographic to tell the story of this demographic using U.S. Census Bureau decennial count (1850–2000) and 2008–2010 American Community Survey data. The information contained in this infograhic was patterned after one that was done for the U.S. by the Census Bureau.
Posted in U.S. Census Data, tagged 2010 Census, ACS, American Community Survey, demographic data, Government Accountability Office, socioeconomic data, United States Census Bureau on August 1, 2012| Leave a Comment »
For all of you data junkies out there – as well as anyone who uses socioeconomic data for anything – are you getting tired of the assault on the American Community Survey (ACS) every year?
This May, it was taken to a new level when the House of Representatives first passed a bill making the ACS a voluntary survey, then deciding to eliminate the ACS completely the following week. Making the ACS voluntary would decrease the participation rate to a level that would essentially (e.g. statistically) make the data worthless considering the already small sample size. Only about 2.5 percent of the addresses in the nation receive the survey each year — hardly a tremendous burden on the American public. (more…)
Posted in Demographic Trends, Economic Projections, Housing & Households, Jobs & Employment, Population, U.S. Census Data, tagged Demographic & Socioeconomic Projections Unit, Maryland State Data Center, Richard Hall, United States Census Bureau on August 1, 2012| Leave a Comment »
My colleague John Coleman talks about the relationship between data, information and knowledge: How data is vital, but not so useful until it can be turned into information and then disseminated as knowledge. Our boss, the Secretary of Planning, Richard E. Hall, puts the process in more industrial terms: turning pig iron into steel into automobiles.
The point is: data is raw material. The public, government, business and other institutions receive enormous amounts of it every day. But the trick — in fact, often the line between success and failure — is the ability to make sense of it.
Posted in Population, U.S. Census Data, tagged 2010 Census, Baltimore City, census, maryland department of planning, Population growth, United States Census Bureau, Washington Post on July 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Caution should be used in analyzing the municipal population estimates just released by the U.S. Census Bureau. There are a few reasons to be careful in making comparisons. (more…)
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