Issues and Limitations in Using Small-Area ACS Data

May 30, 2014 -
10:15am to 11:45am
Keith Wiley, Lance George, Ben Horwitz, Jeanne Gobalet, Shelley Lapkoff, Magali Barbieri, Patricia C. Becker

Issues and Limitations in Using Small-Area ACS Data 
 
Moderator: Warren Brown, CISER, Cornell University 
 
1. Rural Reliability: Determining the Reliability of ACS Estimates for Rural Communities ▪ Keith Wiley and Lance George, Housing Assistance Council 
2. Geographies of Poverty: Improving the Reliability and Usability of Spatial Displays of Small Area ACS Data for Post-Katrina New Orleans ▪ Benjamin Horwitz, Greater New Orleans Community Data Center 
3. Variations in Private School Enrollment Rates ▪ Jeanne Gobalet and Shelley Lapkoff, Lapkoff & Gobalet Demographic Research, Inc.; and Magali Barbieri, University of California, Berkeley  
4. Using the ACS to Help a Mayor Understand His City ▪ Patricia C. Becker, APB 
Associates and Southeast Michigan Census Council