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Census Bureau Releases State Level Estimates for 2009
The Census Bureau released new population estimates at the nation, region and state levels today (12/23). These files contain data for each year since the 2000 census and go up to July 1, 2009. These are the last post-censal estimates at the state level that we'll see for this decade. The data show that Missouri added over 31,000 people in the most recent year (July 1, 2008 to July 1, 2009), bringing it to a new estimate of 5,987,580. Missouri ranked 24th in terms of persons added to its population in the last year, but only 37th when that growth is measured as a percentage of the population. Looking at the trends over the decade, Missouri ranks 18th in terms of total increase and 26th in terms of percentage increase. The state has grown by almost 391,000 persons or 7% over the 9-year period.
Texas and California continue to lead the way in terms of absolute population growth, both in the most recent year and in the decade, with Texas ranking first and California second. Nevada leads in percentage growth for the decade, but slipped to 17th in percentage growth for the latest year (with Wyoming moving into the top ranking there with a 2.1% increase this year).
This is an excerpt from a report generated by the Missouri Census Data Center based upon the files made available by the Bureau. Click here to view the entire report, and/or here to access a csv file with the report data and more.
Uexplore/Dexter users can access the new data in dataset uscomnst09 in the /pub/data/popests data directory.
Introducing Rankster (Preview)
The pdf and csv files referenced above were generated using a new web utility application called rankster. Users who are familiar with our uexplore/dexter software will recognize rankster as a companion tool, with a comparable user interface and similar output formats and conventions. In fact, the easiest way to access rankster is via uexplore. You will navigate to a data set in our archive and when the Dexter custom form page displays there will be a new line near the top of the form that lets you specify that you want to run rankster to process this dataset. We use the future tense here because the code we are talking about is still in test mode. In order to use it at this point you will need to know how to edit a URL that appears in your browser window. When you have a Dexter query form displayed in your window (usually you get there by using uexplore) you are looking at the results of running an application that goes by the geek name "websas.uex2dex.sas". In order to run the test version and get access to rankster you need to change this name to "test.uex2dex.sas". How do you do that? By looking at the URL in your browser's address window (the one that has displayed http://mcdc2.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/broker?_PROGRAM=test.uex2dex.sas&...) You use your mouse to carefully highlight the word "websas" in this URL and then you type the word "test" (all lowercase, without the quotes). Then just hit enter to run the test version of the application. If you do it correctly the top of your new Dexter extracter page should look something like this:
(If you are having trouble seeing the page image below in your browser because it is too small, try "zooming in" on the page by typing "ctrl +" - holding down the Ctrl key while simultaneously typing "+" - to enlarge the image.)
As you can see (*), you now have an option to "Skip dexter and go straight to rankster", which you can just click on. But there will be times when it will be helpful to first run dexter to create a new dataset with just the rows and columns that you are interested in using for your rankings. In these cases you will be able to choose an option to first run Dexter but then pass the output dataset to rankster. If you ignore the new Rankster option line then rankster is not invoked. We hope to have this application available in production within the next week or two. We are hoping to have some useful training materials ready when we announce that step.
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