Seeking to demystify the census and explaining the potential of GIS for understanding people, places, and local economies, this guide explains how geographic information systems (GIS) can significantly ease data management, allowing for new ways to analyze and present relationships among variables.
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Alan Peters is a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Iowa. Heather MacDonald is an associate professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Iowa, where she has served as chair of the planning program. They both live in Iowa City, Iowa.
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An in-depth tutorial on using American FactFinder,
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The U.S. Census provides many complex pieces of data about millions of diverse people, and urban planners, demographers and researchers depend on the data but often face insurmountable problems sifting it for relevant information. Enter Unlocking The Census With GIS, a description of how geographic information systems can be used by both novices and experienced users to analyze and maintain integrity of census data and related information. The spatial format particularly lends to creating economic and data indicators: chapters provide an in-depth tutorial on using American FactFinder, on using databases to link census data, and on translating such data to analytical maps, tables and charts.
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A useful books for demographers who desire to understand how GIS can be applied to census data. A suitable student reference since it combines demographic know-how with GIS technology in an attempt to give the user exposure to both worlds.
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At the beginning of the last century, most U.S. households contained seven or more people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
traffic analysis zone, enterprise statistics, thematic maps, affordable efficiency apartments, state geological survey bureaus, monthly owner costs, nonbasic employment, census geography, elderly renters, census products, unmarried partner households, urban analysts, decennial census data, multiple counties, block group level, geographic identifiers, land professionals, renter households, census tract level, vacant units, reference week Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Census Bureau, United States, Record Type, Economic Census, Dane County, Gennessee County, American Indian, Microsoft Access, Puerto Rico, New York, Hudson County, Native American, Field Calculator, Johnson County, Winnebago County, North Carolina, Source Calculated, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Census Transportation Planning Package, Polk County, New Jersey, Geography Network, Microsoft Excel, New England, Buchanan County Browse Sample Pages:
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At the beginning of the last century, most U.S. households contained seven or more people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
traffic analysis zone, enterprise statistics, thematic maps, affordable efficiency apartments, state geological survey bureaus, monthly owner costs, nonbasic employment, census geography, elderly renters, census products, unmarried partner households, urban analysts, decennial census data, multiple counties, block group level, geographic identifiers, land professionals, renter households, census tract level, vacant units, reference week Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Census Bureau, United States, Record Type, Economic Census, Dane County, Gennessee County, American Indian, Microsoft Access, Puerto Rico, New York, Hudson County, Native American, Field Calculator, Johnson County, Winnebago County, North Carolina, Source Calculated, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Census Transportation Planning Package, Polk County, New Jersey, Geography Network, Microsoft Excel, New England, Buchanan County Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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