Data Collection
Name that acronym: IDC
Internet Data Collection
Counts that indicate when a certain edit rule has occurred
Tallies
This review tool is the only one with a map.
VisART
Just because the spec test uses this type of data doesn't mean it's always a light lift!
What is unweighted data?
The first person you contact if you think there is an error in the data.
Your team lead/branch chief.
Topics that are omitted from a GQ interview
Family relationship and housing
Total number of PANELs on the HU files.
14
Population threshold for geographies in 1-year products.
65,000
The "S" in the Table ID for these two types of data products could very well stand for "Stupefied". You really don't know which one this is until you open the specs.
What are Subject Tables and Selected Population Profiles?
This is why the ACS is considered a decennial program.
The ACS is a continuation of the decennial long-form, last used in 2000 Census.
Cases requiring additional information are eligible for this telephone operation
failed-edit followup (FEFU)
The review step that checks for variable consistency.
Step 3.4
Maximum number of years a suppressed estimate may need to be tracked.
10
On data.census.gov, this other-worldly metadata is NOT actually rendered by the cell you see in the data product spec.
What is the universe?
Name the three specifications tests we conduct annually.
1. Edit Spec Test
2. Product Spec Test
3. Measure (Data Review) Spec Test
Software used for instrument testing
TMO BUILDS
The two types of imputation used in ACS edits.
Assignment and Allocation
Number of replicate weights provided on the VPERS/VHOUS files?
80
This may sound like your data products best friend, but EDDE really stands for this.
What is Enterprise Data Dissemination Environment?
The ACS utilizes this method to provide more robust estimates of the GQ population.
Name the three branches in ACSO Data Collection
HUNR (Housing Unit Non-response)
GQ (Group Quarters)
The process that normalizes data into a "mode agnostic" format because questions and answer lists can vary by collection mode.
Data Collation and Normalization Process (DCP)
649 (or ~2%) of these geographies were published for DY2023 1-year products.
Places
Don't be bewildered by this blast from the past! For past-year sourcing, ACSO runs the ___ year data through the ___year data product spec.
What is the past year data through the current year data product spec?
This was the day the very first U.S. census of the population was held (and it's also Megan's birthday).
August 2nd, 1790