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American Community Survey (ACS)

Training

• American FactFinder 2 Self Tutorial - Urban Areas Population by County Updated: 4/13/2013
• American FactFinder 2 Self Tutorial Updated: 3/5/2013
• American Factfinder 2 - Access Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Tabulation 2006-2010 County to County Flows New: 3/5/2013
• DataFerret Self Tutorial
• Questions & Answers for American Community Survey
• NCHRP Report 588 A Guidebook for Using American Community Survey Data for Transportation Planning
• ACS e-tutorial
• ACS PowerPoint presentations by the Census Bureau, including speaker notes
• The ACS Statistical Analyzer developed by University of South Florida, Center for Urban Transportation Research (MS Excel)
• Challenging the Census Bureau Population Estimates: The Census Bureau County Estimates are used as controls for weighting the American Community Survey samples. Therefore, the ACS results are highly reliant on reasonable population estimates. The Census Bureau has a system in place to challenge the estimates.
• CNSTAT project: Using the American Community Survey: Benefits and Challenges
• Ken Bryson's (US Census Bureau) overview on Accessing Data from the American Factfinder (Macromedia Format)
• Brooking's Institution: Tracking Who We Are and Where We Are Going: Using the American Community Survey
• Spreadsheet to Calculate ACS Margins of Error and Statistical Significance for Sums, Proportions and Ratios developed by New York Data Center