Webinar Overview John DeWitt Project Manager Social Science Data Analysis Network Lisa Neidert Data Services Population Studies Center

Overview Touch base – Contact us if you need help Manipulation; Interpretation; Sources for quotations Gauge interest in future webinars – Tutorial for re-design of American FactFinder – Other topics? Touch on Current/Future resources Review American FactFinder Questions

Current News ACS 5-year data released on December 14 th – Links to the Distribution of the Population Across the US – Lots of national stories but plenty of room for local stories Simple items can paint an interesting story – Race, Hispanic, Age, Foreign born, Poverty, Education – Marriage and Family Formation; 30%+ Mortgages Use all of your geographies – School Districts; Congressional Districts; State legislative districts Trend Comparisons [19?? – 2010]

Future News Census 2010 Population Counts release date is December 21 st – Should already have an idea of how your state will do Handful of states on the bubble, but there may be surprises – Will US total population fall within Demographic Analysis estimates? – % of difference is driven by different immigration assumptions – Will there by any challenges to the 2010 Census?

Future News Re-districting – All states have to re-district, not just states that lose/gain seats – Get a head-start by looking at ACS data on Congressional Districts – P.L data released during Feb-Mar on a flow basis – Don’t forget GQ (prison) population Technical Link (Gerrymandering) – Tobler’s Law, Urbanization, and Electoral Bias Tobler’s Law, Urbanization, and Electoral Bias

Future News Additional Releases of ACS Data – 3-year tabular data – 3-year and 5-year PUMS data – Updates to PDQ-Explore 2009 single year data before 2011 Population Estimates – Down the road – Ranking stories are always interesting Biggest losers (population); Highest gains (percentage); etc. Components – births, deaths, in-migrants, outmigration, etc.