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Guide to the Census: + Website
Author(s): Frank Bass (Author)
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Publication Date: 22 Mar. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 1118328019
- ISBN-13: 9781118328019
Book Description
This handy resource offers a reference guide for anyone interested in tailoring specific Census data to their needs. It includes computer coding (SAS v9.x) software for extracting targeted data from thousands of Census files, as well as primers on using online tools and mapping software for analyzing data. The book offers thorough coverage of all aspects of census data including its historical significance, suggestions for parsing housing, occupation, transportation, economic, health, and other data from the census, and much more.
- Offers an guide to analyzing Census data that can have an impact on financial markets as well as housing and economic data boding ill or well for the future of the economy
- It includes computer coding (SAS v9.x) scripts for extracting specific data from Census files
- Offers guidance on using thousands of variables from Census results released every year and American Community Survey data now released every year
- The only one–stop guide to analyzing and using annual and decennial Census data
Bass offers a practical guide for leveraging information compiled by the Census to further research as well as business interests.
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About the Author
Frank Bass is an award–winning journalist who has used Census data for more than three decades. He is the author of The Associated Press Guide to Internet Research and Reporting, and he has lectured extensively about demographic research throughout the United States. Bass was the lead news manager for the AP′s coverage of the 2000 Census. He joined Bloomberg in 2010 and is a data editor for Bloomberg News in New York. He was also the data editor for coverage of the 2010 Census for the State and Municipality team as well as a consultant for the Projects and Investigations team. Bass has worked at the Wall Street Journal, the Houston Post (where he was the 1994 Texas Headliners Foundation Reporter of the Year) and the Alabama Journal, where he shared the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting.
