Thursday, December 16, 2010

Refresher

E-Tutorials

The following are two video tutorials that illustrate use of some of the tools that we covered in the McCormick workshop. The audio on these may be dicey so they will likely be replaced.
American FactFinder Example:
This example walks a user through selecting a Geographic Comparison Table; downloading the data; and opening it up in Excel. If you know how to download/open in Excel, just stop watching at that point.
PDQ-Explore example: 
This example illustrates a query that is not available in American FactFinder; how to produce the query in PDQ-Explore; with some digressions about PUMA definitions and weighting.
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Another "Introduction to the Census"

This was a presentation by Farley and Neidert for an ICPSR webinar on censuses around the world. The USA presentation occurs at about the 45 minute mark. You can choose to watch it or just snag the slides.

[ppt]
[Video of session]
Original Source is from ICPSR's Social Science Data Fair
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PDQ Explore Exercises: Poverty Focus

Guide to Variables
Selected variables from IPUMS with PUMS, ACS, and CPS equivalent names
Register to use IPUMS
(required for making an extract)
Making an Extract of the ACS 3-year data from IPUMS
[ppt] [pdf]
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PDQ Software: Updates

This is a newer version of the data (all the 2008 microdata files). We will have the 2009 1-year data available shortly. The 3-year and 5-year data will not be available until 2011.
The following is a link to the PDQ-Explore software that you used during the workshop. You will need to download the zip file to the C:\ drive on your PC.
PDQ-Explore
As a reminder of what you need to do to get started, here is the introduction to Using PDQ-Explore, which includes some technical notes.
Introduction to PDQ-Explore


Guides to PDQ Explore

There are about 10 guides that describe in quite a bit of detail how to do many of the procedures covered in the class. If you find you need a reminder, check these out. You will need to scroll down the page to see the guides.
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American FactFinder: Examples and Exercises

"College town 'poverty' exposed: Low-income students help win grant money"
Stephen Koff and Bill Sloat | Cleveland Plain Dealer
September 17, 2006

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