Webinar Overview

Overview

• Touch base – Contact us if you need help

• Manipulation; Interpretation; Sources for quotations

• Gauge interest in future webinars– Tutorial for re-design of American FactFinder – Other topics?

• Touch on Current/Future resources• Review American FactFinder• Questions

Current News

• ACS 5-year data released on December 14th

– Links to the Distribution of the Population Across the US– Lots of national stories but plenty of room for local stories

• Simple items can paint an interesting story – Race, Hispanic, Age, Foreign born, Poverty, Education– Marriage and Family Formation; 30%+ Mortgages

• Use all of your geographies– School Districts; Congressional Districts; State legislative districts

• Trend Comparisons [19?? – 2010]

Future News

• Census 2010 Population Counts release date is December 21st – Should already have an idea of how your state will do

• Handful of states on the bubble, but there may be surprises

– Will US total population fall within Demographic Analysis estimates?• 305.7 – 312.8• 72% of difference is driven by different immigration assumptions

– Will there by any challenges to the 2010 Census?

Future News

• Re-districting– All states have to re-district, not just states that lose/gain

seats– Get a head-start by looking at ACS data on Congressional

Districts– P.L. 94-171 data released during Feb-Mar on a flow basis– Don’t forget GQ (prison) population

• Technical Link (Gerrymandering)– Tobler’s Law, Urbanization, and Electoral Bias

Future News

• Additional Releases of ACS Data – 3-year tabular data– 3-year and 5-year PUMS data– Updates to PDQ-Explore

• 2009 single year data before 2011

• Population Estimates – Down the road– Ranking stories are always interesting

• Biggest losers (population); • Highest gains (percentage); etc.• Components – births, deaths, in-migrants, outmigration, etc.