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Census Bureau Releases 3-year Period Estimates for 2006-2008
As promised the Census Bureau has delivered the latest set of summary data products based on the American Community Survye for the calendar years 2006 through 2008. See the relevant press release at the Bureau's web site. The MCDC has
updated our ACS Profiles web application so that it will now allow you to display profiles based on these data. (See the link to this app as the first item in our Quick Links navigation box - just to the right side of this page.) The data can also be accessed via the American FactFinder web site.
IRS Migration Data for 2007/2008 Available
The IRS has released a new year of state and county level migration flows based on tracking tax returns between 2007 and 2008. As usual, the Missouri Census Data Center has obtained these data and made them available in our public data archive, as well as via our interactive web application that displays a migration profile for any selected county in the U.S.
We used to have to purchase these data on cd-rom/DVD but starting this year the IRS has decided to make the raw files available via a free download site.
You can access our irsmig data collection via uexplore, which lets you access the Migration_Profiles menu page .
New for this year (on our site, at least) is the availability of state-to-state migration profiles. (Prior to this everything we had was county level data.) These reports display the same kind of data in essentially the same format as the county profiles but the data are all at the state level. So you can access a report for Missouri to see how many tax-return flows occurred between Missouri and any other state in the country. We have these data for the most recent four tax-year combinations: 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007 and 2007-2008. To access these you need to go to the Migration_Profiles menu page and look for the menu item US State-to-State.html.
2008 ACS Single-Year Data Now Complete
Last week (late September) we noted here that the Census Bureau had released a new set of American Community Survey data products based on a single year's worth of surveys, 2008. (See our What's New page for details). We noted at that time that the data were not complete due to problems discovered by the Bureau in some of the tables relating to income and poverty. Those problems have now been fixed and a complete set of tables have been released. The Missouri Census Data Center has processed the refreshed tables and have used the new data to complete our ACS Profile Reports (see first link under Quick Links - just to the right). Better yet,
click here to see a sample report with just the brand new economic sub-profile for the cities of Columbia and Springfield, Missouri and the U.S. Scroll to the bottom and note the last table in the profile: this is the eagerly anticipated data regarding insurance coverage that was just added to the ACS for 2008. Click on the graph icon to see these data as pie charts. You can also follow the links in the (rightmost) "Ref Table" column to display related complete base tables.
The 3-year period estimates data based on survey years 2006 through 2008 are scheduled to be released on October 27. That will give us data for geographic areas as small as 20,000. However, because the questions on insurance coverage have only been asked for 2008, there will not be any data on this topic in the these period estimates.
We have also downloaded the complete set of ACS detailed ("base") tables and have made them available via links within the ACS Profiles as well as via Uexplore/Dexter in the MCDC data archive. You can also access these tables at the Census Bureau's
American FactFinder site.
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