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• No complaints: Navigating the New American Fact Finder, improvements and updates

  Learn more about how to use the new American FactFinder, or AFF, which has compiled several censuses and surveys. Check out the new enhancements and more user-friendly features of AFF.

  Tags: American FactFinder; AFF; censuses; surveys

  By Erran Persley

  2013

• The numbers don’t lie **If you read them really carefully

  This is Campbell's Powerpoint presentation for the panel: Analyzing the past, present and future with U.S. Census data. He includes the pros and cons of using Census data as well as some tips for stories you can do using the Census.

  Tags: census; data; story ideas

  By Ron Campbell

  2012

• Investigating Issues of Race and Poverty

  Nixon discusses resources for investigating race and poverty. His list includes the U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and immigration statistics.

  Tags: race; poverty; statistics; data; sources; internet research

  By Ron Nixon

  2008

• Making the most of the U.S. Census Bureau's Factfinder

  Guckian explains the uses of the U.S. Census Bureau's Factfinder and also gives information on how to find the information. Furthermore, she provides a detailed explanation of how to use the information in the American Community Survey (ACS).

  Tags: Factfinder; Census data; interpreting data; American Community Survey (ACS)

  By Kelly Guckian

  2006

• Making the most of the U.S. Census Bureau's Factfinder

  The author discusses how to use the U.S. Census Bureau's Factfinder feature on the organization's website to find information about the American Community Survey. She discusses how to find example questions from various questionnaires, reviews some of the definitions, and compares the material covered in the American Community Survey to that in the Decennial Census. The tipsheet includes screen shots from the Census Bureau's website to illustrate how to use the Factfinder.

  Tags: population; demographic; Census; survey; historical census; internet

  By Kelly Guckian

  2006

• Recapturing History

  Gebeloff uses a PowerPoint Presentation to show how to use IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata), a website maintained by the University of Minnesota, to find trends. IPUMS uses data collected by the census but analyzes them in ways the official census has not published. He shows, for example, a table showing where self-employed Chinese who work in Manhattan live. This was not published by the Census.

  Tags: U.S. Census; CAR; PUMS; IPUMS; data analysis; social trends; population trends.

  By Rob Gebeloff

  2005

• Sources for Covering Your Local Transit Agency

  McGinty provides sources and what you can find by using them, such as the National Transit Database and Florida International University's database. Both contain dozens of spreadsheets with ridership information, revenue, crime data and so on. McGinty also lists some must-read documents for covering transit in your area.

  Tags: Transportation; public transportation; U.S. census data; urban mobility; NTD; metropolitan transit

  By Tom McGinty

  2005

• Finding great stories in the Census

  This tipsheet has a list of websites produced by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census is a great place to find story ideas! On the tipsheet, there are links to the U.S. Census Bureau website, the population estimates division, the Economic Census, and the American Community Survey.

  Tags: Census; story ideas; U.S. Census Bureau; Economic Census; American Community Survey; population estimates

  By IRE

  2005

• Local Employment Dynamics (LED): New Information from the Census Bureau

  Wu explains details about Local Employment Dynamics (LED), a new Census Bureau database used to track changes within the work force.

  Tags: LED; Local Employment Dynamics; U.S. Census Bureau; Quarterly Workforce Indicators; industrial classification codes

  By Jeremy Wu

  2004

• Investigating Agriculture: Down on the Farm

  Stapleton provides ways to identify federal agencies that oversee farming. She has tips on understanding the regulations and regulators. The tipsheet tells where data can be obtained regarding violations, fines, penalties and suspensions. Stapleton provides agricultural information on pesticides, comparative analysis, politics, and labor. The tipsheet has links to websites that have important agricultural data. Additionally, the tipsheet has a printout from the U.S. Department of Labor which tells what information this agency collects.

  Tags: agriculture; farmer; pesticide inspector; U.S. Department of Labor; wage and labor disputes; Migrant and Seasonal Workers Protection Act; Farm labor; contracting; transportation; housing regulations; politics; Social Security Administration; Labor; disability; pesticides; EPA's Worker's Protection Standards; United Farm Workers; National Agriculture Workers Survey; Wage and Labor violation data; Census of Agriculture

  By Christine Stapleton

  2004