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Working with the American Community Survey in R

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Statistics Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45772-7

ISBN: 978-3-319-45771-0

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 7, 2016

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The Dawn of the ACS: The Nature of Estimates

Glenn, Ezra Haber

Pages: 1 –7

[Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau undertakes a complete count of the country’s population, or at least attempts to do so; that’s what a census is. The information they gather is very limited: this is known as the Census “short form,” which consists of only six questions on sex, age, race,...
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Getting Started in R

Glenn, Ezra Haber

Pages: 9 –14

[In recent years, the R statistical package has emerged as the leading open-source alternative to applications such as SPSS, Stata, and SAS. In some fields—notably biological modeling and econometrics—R is becoming more widely used than commercial competitors, due in large part to the open source...
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Working with the New Functions

Glenn, Ezra Haber

Pages: 15 –37

[We’ve tried to make this User Guide as detailed as possible, to help you learn about the many advanced features of the new package. As a result, it may look like there is a lot to learn, but in fact the basics are pretty simple: to get ACS data for your own user-defined geographies, all you need...
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Exporting Data

Glenn, Ezra Haber

Pages: 39 –40

[In the future, versions of the acs package will include improved export functions to allow users to save acs data in a variety of formats. For now, however, users wishing to export data for use in spreadsheets or other program can make use of the existing export functions, such as write.csv,...
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Additional Resources

Glenn, Ezra Haber

Pages: 41 –41

[The acs package is hosted on the cran repository, where updates will appear from time to time. For additional guidance and examples, users are advised to review the complete documentation at (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/acs/index.html), which can also be accessed in an R session via...

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