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The U.S. Census Bureau's mission "is to serve as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy." Use this tag for data collected and/or published by the US Census Bureau.

The US Census Bureau manages a number of data collection projects for the US government. While it was originally created to count the population for purposes of legislative apportionment, they now gather much more data about individual citizens and where and how they live. This data is primarily published in the Decennial Census of Population and Housing and the American Community Survey (ACS).

In addition, in cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census conducts the Current Population Survey (CPS), which is the primary source of national employment statistics and other economic data.

Census also conducts 5-year surveys of governments and the economy.

This tag is appropriate for all data published by the Census Bureau, including the CPS, whether published as bulk data, via the American Fact Finder, DataFerrett, or other tools or repositories.

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How to work around or resolve a Census.gov IP-Blacklist?

I've recently been IP blacklisted from Census.gov. To dispel any possible doubt, I'm a developer using PostGIS. And a contributor to the project. When I try to access Census.gov, I'm getting Access Denied You don't have permission to access…
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Batch conversions of lat, lon to US census tract?

I have 700,000 latitude/longitude pairs I need to convert to US Census tracts. Is there a free API that offers this in batches? So far the only option I have found is from the FCC and does not state a rate limit but has the form of a 1-1 call to…
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Data Ferret (Census.gov) will not load

I'm after CPS data and want to download them from Census Bureau's Data Ferret app (http://dataferrett.census.gov/). However, I can't get the Data Ferret to load. I open the pop-up window (I "tick" all the requirements), it starts loading and then…
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Where can I find a complete list of Census Bureau Summary Level (SUMLEV) definitions in table format?

The Census Bureau published summary level (SUMLEV) definitions in PDFs, though these are not always complete and do not always match the SUMLEVs in the actual data file. For example, this PDF here has the summary level sequence chart, but I cannot…
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What are the Units of Measure for the ZAREALAND & MAREALAND fields in US Census Data?

What are the Units of Measure for the ZAREALAND & MAREALAND fields in the 2010 ZCTA to Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas Relationship File published by the United States Census Bureau? Image from the Explanation of the 2010 ZCTA to…
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How can I get raw occupational data from the census long form?

Related to this question: Raw data from US Census and BLS what we want is occupational data for natural language processing research (i.e,. the text that people fill in, not the bubbles) probably from the census long form, but other data sources…
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U.S. Census CBP Employment by year at aggregate U.S. level

I'm analysing employment by U.S. CBSA in the period 2001-2014, based on U.S. Census CBP data. I'd like to obtain aggregate employment in the U.S. (50 states+DC) based on CBPs. Since CBSA data is partial, I can't get country-level aggregates by just…
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American Fact Finder vs ACS from IPUMS

What is the relationship between the data from the Census's American Fact Finder and the data from IPUMS ACS? If the data are different, what are the circumstances in which I should use one over the other?
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On average, in the United States, when the youngest child of a husband and wife turns 18 years of age, what are the ages of the parents?

What I really want to know is, at the point in each child's life when they are gaining full independence from their parents, on average: 1) What is the father's age? 2) What is the mother's age? Recognizing the improbability that such data exists,…
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Is there a way to get all counties in an MSA?

Is there a way to get the list of all counties that are part of an MSA/CBSA? According to this hierarchy, I don't see an obvious way:…
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Tracts in a Place from Census API

Using the US Census Decennial Census API, is it possible to get a list of all the Census tracts that are part of a Census place.
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Where can I find ACS data for *specific* countries of origin and languages spoken at home?

I wanted to map out where Ethiopians live in the Puget Sound area. ArcGIS has mapped ACS data, but I could only find data for places of birth grouped by continent. Same with languages spoken. What I really want is data that shows how many people…
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Calculating MOE for Net Migration

I'm trying to replicate how the ACS calculates their MOEs for Gross Migration and NetMigration from the latest 2013-2017 County-to-County Migration flow data. I followed their guidance/methodology for approximating a MOE for derived estimates for…
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