Description
American Community Survey Census data includes demographics, education level, commute information, and more subset to Colorado by the Department of Local Affairs (DOLA).
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Licensing and Attribution
- Data Provided By
- DOLA
- Source Link
- https://www.colorado.gov/dola
- License
- Public Domain
Contributing Agency Information
- Citation
- DOLA - Department of Local Affairs
- Agency Program Page
- https://www.colorado.gov/dola
- Agency Data Series Page
- https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/
Data Description
- Collection Mode
- TIGER line files
- Collection Method
- The 2000 census marked the last year that the long form was distributed to 1 in 6 households (a 17% sample), and in 2010 the actual sample size for the long form was 2.5% per year (totaling 12.5% over a 5 year cycle). In 2000, one household answered the long form questions on behalf of 5 other households, and in 2010 a single household provides data for between seven other households (5 year averages) and 39 other households (1 year averages for larger places).
- Data Collection Instrument
- Surveys
- Date of Initial Dataset Creation
- 2016
- Field Names, comma delimited
- https://data.colorado.gov/Demographics/Census-Field-Descriptions/qten-sdpn/data
- Long Description
- Census Data is collected every 10 years by mail surveys to every household with primary data collection fields of population, gender, race and number of occupants. Overcounts are known to exist in student and dual-residence populations, while undercounts are a given for homeless and illegal immigrants. Errors arise from both sampling and non-sampling methods. Sampling errors are misrepresentations of a larger population based on the selection of the representative sample. Accuracy of the estimates depend in part on how typical the people within the sampled housing units are to others within their area. The Census estimates sampling error based on the population and its extent of variability. The long-form of the Census is distributed to a subset of households, and includes additional data related to households, economy, employment, occupation, as well as occupancy and building structure data. Household fields include: Total Households, Total Families, Households by Household Type by Household Size, Persons in Group Quarters by Detailed Group Quarters Type, Persons 25 Years and Over by Educational Attainment, Persons 16 Years and Over by Labor Force and Employment Status, Median Household Income, Median Family Income, Per Capita Income, Persons by Poverty Status in Previous Year. Occupancy fields include: Total Housing Units, Housing Units by Occupancy Status, Vacant Housing Units by Vacancy Status, Occupied Housing Units by Tenure, Median Housing Value, Median Contract Rent.
- Single Row
- Census zip codes demographics
Data Quality
- Expected Update Frequency
- Static
Data Updates
- Update Schedule
- None
- Update Method
- None
- Update Type
- Static
- Total Records At Initial Publish
- 526
Dataset Coverage
- Unit of Analysis
- Vector polygon
- Geographic Coverage
- State
Geospatial
- Horizontal Accuracy
- Census data is reliable as within the constraints of funding, staffing and legislation. Sampling and Non-sampling errors include, but are not limited to, missing survey responses, under and over counts, inverviewer error.
- Horizontal Coordinate System
- NAD83/GCS_North_American_1983
- Web Display Coordinate System
- WGS84
- Coordinate System Disclaimer
- NOTE: To maintain source projection, select “Export Original” from export menu. To display on the web, export using any other option.
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