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The United States census provides researchers students and the public with some of the richest and broadest information available about the American people Exploring the US Census by Frank Donnelly gives social science students and researchers alike the tools to understand extract process and analyze data from the decennial census the American Community Survey and other data collected by the US Census Bureau More than just a data collection exercise performed every ten years the census is a series of datasets updated on an ongoing basis With all that data comes opportunities and challenges opportunities to teach students the value of census data for studying communities and answering research questions and the challenges of navigating and comprehending such a massive data source and transforming it into usable information that students and researchers can analyze with basic skills and software Just as important as showing what the census can tell social researchers is showing how to ask good questions of census data Exploring the US Census provides a thorough background on the data collection methods structures and potential pitfalls of the census for unfamiliar researchers collecting information previously available only in widely disparate sources into one handy guide Handson applied exercises at the end of the chapters help readers dive into the dataThe first chapter of the book places the census into context discussing the history and the role of the census in society as well as in the larger universe of government open and big data The book then moves onto the essentials of the data structure including the variety of sources and searching mechanisms geography from nation down to zip code and the fundamental subject categories social economic and geographic that are used for summarizing data in all of the various datasets The next section delves into the individual datasets discussing the purpose and structure of each with separate chapters devoted to the decennial census ACS Population Estimates Program and business datasets A final chapter for this section pulls everything together with a focus on writing and presenting your research on the data The final section covers advanced topics and applications including mapping geographic information systems creating new variables and measures from census data historical census data and microdata Along the way the author shows how best to analyze census data with opensource software and tools such as QGIS geographic information system LibreOfficeR Calc and the DB Browser for SQLiteR Readers can freely evaluate the data on their own computers in keeping with the free and open data provided by the Census Bureau By placing the census in the context of the open data movement this text makes the history and practice of the census relevant so readers can understand what a crucial resource the United States census is for research and knowledge. 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