Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Your Guide for The Puerto Rico Community Survey, Group Quarters, ACS-30(GQ)(PR)(2009), October 2008
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Your Guide for the American Community Survey
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ISBN:
Category : American community survey
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Your Guide for the American Community Survey, Your Community's Key to the Future, ACS-30(GQ)99, (September 1998)
Author: Your Guide For The American Community Survey, ACS-30-(GQ), April 1998
Author: Document Retrieval Index
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Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: Research in Education
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Handbook of Resilience in Children
Author: Sam GoldsteinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780387303338
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This handbook gathers into one volume the current scientific theory, clinical guidelines, and real-world interventions that can help children overcome the everyday obstacles they face. It includes a wide range of perspectives addressing the role of resilience in helping children overcome these obstacles. The book provides guidance on how to measure and evaluate resilience in clinical practice, and it emphasizes the importance of resilience – positive psychology – rather than pathologies. In addition, the book features contributions from leading experts from a variety of fields, such as psychology, education, and social work.
Exploring the U.S. Census
Author: Frank DonnellyPublisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1544355440
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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. Hands-on, applied exercises at the end of the chapters help readers dive into the data. The 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 open-source software and tools, such as QGIS geographic information system, LibreOffice® Calc, and the DB Browser for SQLite®. 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.