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Census Bureau Releases 2008 State-Level Pop Estimates
The Census Bureau has released the first set of population estimates for 2008 in the form of state and nation level figures with annual components of change since 2000. The new data show the state of Missouri growing by an estimated 33,206 persons between July 1, 2007 and 2008, resulting in a 2008 official estimate of 5,911,605. This is a .6% increase (less than one percent) as compared to a .9% increase nationwide. The 33,206-person increase was the result of 82,985 births and 53,170 deaths (resulting in a "natural increase" of 29,815) and a net in-migration of 3,391 persons. The Bureau does not report gross migrations (total persons moving into the state vs. those moving out) but the net figures are broken down to show that there was a 5,902 international migration gain and a domestic migration net loss of 2,384. In other words, there were 2,384 more persons who moved out of Missouri and into another state than there were persons from other states who moved into Missouri.
Missouri continues to rank as the 18th most populous state (the same rank it had last year, but down from its rank of 17 based on the 2000 census figures). The 6 fastest-growing states, based on total net population increase in the last year, were (in order) Texas, California, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Florida. Missouri ranked 22nd in net growth this year. See some of the key numbers
along with the corresponding state ranks in our State level estimates report. Uexplore/Dexter users can access and extract the data from the newly-created
popests.uscomnst08 data set. See the offical Census Bureau press release as well as "popular tables" associated with these estimates at the Bureau's population estimates web page.
New SAIPE Poverty Estimates
The Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) porgram at the Census Bureau released new data for the
country last week. They released new data for calendar years 2006 and 2007. We downloaded data for US states and counties and for US School Districts for both years. We ran our standard conversion setup which recreates two data sets within the
saipe data directory. These sets are named usstcnty20xx and usschldst20xx. So the latter now have data for years 2000 thru 2007. The corresponding Missouri-subset views (change the first 2 characters of the name from "us" to "mo") were also updated. To access the original data see the
SAIPE web site.
First-ever American Community Survey "Period Estimates" Released by Bureau
The Census Bureau has released its first ever set of data tabulations based on multiple years of American Community Survey data. The data are for the 3-year period 2005 to 2007 and are provided for geographic areas of at least 20,000 population. Previously, the Bureau had released data for the years 2005, 2006 and 2007 separately but only for areas with a minimum population of 65,000.
These data can be accessed at the Census Bureau's American FactFinder web site (choose the Data Sets options and the American Community Survey sub-option from the menu on the left of the page).
On this (MCDC) web site you can access these new data:
- Using the MCDC's ACS Profile dynamic web report generator application (which is also the first link in the Quick Links box that appears on the right side of most MCDC web pages).
- Using the MCDC's Uexplore/Dexter web tools (see note). To access the standard extract data you should navigate via Uexplore to the
acs2007 data directory and select the usmcdcprofiles3yr data set for extraction. There are over 14,000 rows (geographic areas) and just under 1000 variables (data items) in this huge data set. Access the detailed metadata page (link provided at the top of the Dexter extracter page) to learn more about this data set. While this profile data will suffice for most users for most applications, there may be times when you will want to access the more detailed "base tables" from which the profiles data are derived. The MCDC provides access to these as well, in the basetbls subdirectory of the acs2007 data directory. There are 12 data sets in this directory comprising the base tables data. Each has a filename ending with a 3yr suffix. Six of these 12 contains the actual estimates while the other six contain the corresponding MOE (margin of error) measures. There are six of each because we divide the collection of over 1200 tables into subject-based subsets. The data set ustabs00_073yr.sas7bdat (the ".sas7bdat" part is the file extension, which just means it's a Dexter-accessible SAS data set) contains data for all tables numbered starting with 00 thru 07, which means:
00: Sampling info
01:Age and Sex / 02:Race / 03: Hispanic Origin / 04: Ancestry / 05: Foreign Born, Citizenship / 06: Place of Birth / 07: Residence Last Year, Migration . Each of the over 14,000 observations (rows, geographic areas summarized) contains about 4,000 variables. To see what the tables are, as well as the detailed labels for all the variables comprising those tables, you can access the Varlabs subdirectory of acs2007 and then click on the file 00_07labels.txt. You can also access this file from the link near the bottom of the Detailed Metadata page for each data set.
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