Working with the American Community Survey in R A Guide to Using the acs Package /

• Main Author: Glenn, Ezra Haber (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Statistics,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Big data.; Computer programming.; Sociology, Urban.; Demography.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Big Data/Analytics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Programming Techniques.; Urban Studies/Sociology.

This book serves as a hands-on guide to the "acs" R package for demographers, planners, and other researchers who work with American Community Survey (ACS) data. It gathers the most common problems associated with using ACS data and implements functions as a package in the R statistical pr...

Table of Contents:

• Purpose
• The Dawn of the ACS; the Natur of Estimates
• Census Data and the R Project
• Getting Started in R
• Working with the New Functions
• Exporting Data
• Additional Resources
• Appendix A.