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one good place to go is IPUMS. IPUMS is run by the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota. The website contains microdata from a large number of surveys including the Census, American Community Survey, and Current Population Study. From the IPUMS website: The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS-USA) consists of more than…
The year 2010 marks the last for the decennial Census. Although you might miss the ad campaigns every 10 years, the Census hasn’t really disappeared completely. Instead, it’s being replaced by the American Community Survey (ACS). Although the goals of the ACS are similar to those of the Census, its approach is very different. Rather…
Google has created easy to use charts on U.S. population and employment from public-use data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Instructions of how to use this data can be found here (video). Here are some examples I created: Unemployment in 3 Southern California Counties. Population Growth in 8 Midwestern…