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Working with the American Community Survey in R

A Guide to Using the acs Package

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Ezra Haber Glenn

    1. Department of Urban Studies & Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

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  • Serves as a hands-on guide to using the "acs" package in R, with worked examples
  • Demonstrates the power of geographical output (visual displays of data via maps)
  • Deals with real details about ACS data and sampling structure

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Statistics (BRIEFSSTATIST)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Dawn of the ACS: The Nature of Estimates

    • Ezra Haber Glenn
    Pages 1-7

  3. Getting Started in R

    • Ezra Haber Glenn
    Pages 9-14

  4. Working with the New Functions

    • Ezra Haber Glenn
    Pages 15-37

  5. Exporting Data

    • Ezra Haber Glenn
    Pages 39-40

  6. Additional Resources

    • Ezra Haber Glenn
    Pages 41-41

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 43-53
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About this book

This book serves as a hands-on guide to the "acs" R package for demographers, planners, and other researchers who work with American Community Survey (ACS) data. It gathers the most common problems associated with using ACS data and implements functions as a package in the R statistical programming language.  The package defines a new "acs" class object (containing estimates, standard errors, and metadata for tables from the ACS) with methods to deal appropriately with common tasks (e.g., creating and combining subgroups or geographies, automatic fetching of data via the Census API, mathematical operations on estimates, tests of significance, plots of confidence intervals).

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Urban Studies & Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Ezra Haber Glenn

About the author

Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP, is Lecturer in the Housing, Community, and Economic Development Group of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, where he teaches on both community development practice and quantitative methods for planning. He has taught urban planning, politics, and GIS mapping as well at Tufts University and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Ezra is also the developer and maintainer of the "acs" package in the R Statistical Language, which helps users download and work with data from the American Community Survey in R.

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