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33 votes
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Be able to combine multiple counties by clicking on map or radius option
I would love to be able to create reports with combined data for larger areas by clicking on different counties on the map or provide a radius option.
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Historical Tables
When looking at the Core Based Statistical Area in: Washington, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue WA Metro Area, it would be very helpful to have quick access to a History Table. Something like making the ACS 2014 a live link to a table where I can click on a year and it get all the data I was previously viewing, but for that year I choose. So far I can not figure out how to navigate to a History report.
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Provide an option to import a target area through a GIS shape file.
Be able to import a target area or boundary that would pull from block census data and be able to choose report year. (Census, ACS) import would be a GIS shape file or geo database.
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Allow for comparison of a table over multiple releases...
This idea assumes multiple data releases, and the ability to tie them together based on topics contained tables that might not appear in each release.
I'm thinking it would helpful to be able to select a topic and a place and and be able to compare data over time.
For instance, I needed to find the number of renters for a given county over time. I used the American Fact Finder to find General Housing Characteristics from the 2000 Census, the 2010 Census and the 2012 American Community Survey and then pull out the relevant information.
10 votes -
include headline data in sidebar boxes
We used two of your boxes in a recent story for WAMU 88. News (wamu.fm/1Uo4TO9). For layout reasons, we had to use the sidebar version of the box as opposed to the one that goes all the way across the screen. I was disappointed to learn that the headline information does not appear in the sidebar version of the boxes. For example, the headline on the "place of birth" box show that 49.8 percent of people living in this Census tract are foreign born. But that stat does not appear in the sidebar version of the box.
7 votes -
Print and PDF ability
Make this all printable and/or downloadable into PDF format.
6 votes -
add racial/ethnicity data by county
You seem to break down county population in numerous ways, but not by race/ethnicity. An odd omission.
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Errors opening data tables?
Errors opening data tables! For example
Go here: https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US4260000-philadelphia-pa/
Click show data and then view table
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Add ACS 5-year estimates
1-year estimates are more susceptible to bad data. I'd love to be able to use Census Reporter, but can't confidently cite the ACS 1-year estimates in reports.
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4 votes
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Add data profile tables
Data profile tables DP02-DP05. They provide aggregate statistics such as number and percent of population 65 and older, percent of 25+ with bachelor degrees or higher.
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4 votes
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Provide data at the level that is useful to rural communities.
Federal rural development grant programs have stringent requirements for establishing eligibility for funding. Unfortunately, the data sets required to be used to establish eligibility render most rural communities "statistically invisible" For example: To find a community of 600 in a rural county of a western state, the closest you can get is census tract, block group or zip code, all of which are hundreds, sometimes thousands of square miles larger than the rural community needing federal assistance. This skews income data as well as the ability to identify the rural, unincorporated community in question.
It would be much more useful…4 votes -
4 votes
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Bulk export workaround
I'm trying to download census tracts for New York showing median income from the 5 year ACS and I'm running up against the bulk download. I only need data for Kings and New York counties, though. 1) What is the best way to get this data and 2) it would be great if you could filter geographies so you could export a subset of an entire state, since doing that will get you over the limit in some cases.
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4 votes
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Use coefficient of variation when trying to assess the margin of error
You have a dagger (†) warning for when the margin of error is 10% of the estimate, but the more appropriate way to do this is to use the coefficient of variation (see link below) to assess the MoE. It's also called the "relative standard error" and is a way to assess whether the margin of error is "too high" for the estimate to be of any use. I would recommend showing the dagger warning when the coefficient of variation exceeds 30%. For broader audience communication purposes, you could say something like, "The margin of error for this estimate is…
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only use one data source
Right now you have cities over 65,000 under the new ACS 2021 1-year data, and all others under the ACS 2020 5-year data. Unfortunately, these are two separate data sources so for statistical analysis, it's improper to compare, say, Cleveland with adjacent smaller suburbs. The database mixes them up, but I would keep ACS 2020 5-year until the 2017-2021 ACS 5-year Estimates come out in December and then switch to that, so that all census data is sourcing from the same estimates.
3 votes -
Is data on car-free households available?
http://www.bikesatwork.com/carfree/carfree-census-database.html suggests that the 2000 census included data on car-free households (also, worth reaching out to them to help plug their searches into Census Reporter!)
I'd love to find that data here but all I see is "means of transportation to work"
3 votes
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