Creating a Census County Assessment Tool for Visualizing Census Data
Volume 21, Issue 2 (2023): Special Issue: Symposium Data Science and Statistics 2022, pp. 239–254
Pub. online: 21 December 2022
Type: Data Science In Action
Open Access
Received
28 July 2022
28 July 2022
Accepted
14 December 2022
14 December 2022
Published
21 December 2022
21 December 2022
Abstract
The 2020 Census County Assessment Tool was developed to assist decennial census data users in identifying deviations between expected census counts and the released counts across population and housing indicators. The tool also offers contextual data for each county on factors which could have contributed to census collection issues, such as self-response rates and COVID-19 infection rates. The tool compiles this information into a downloadable report and includes additional local data sources relevant to the data collection process and experts to seek more assistance.