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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Topics - Census Reporter</title> <meta name="description" content=""> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.0/themes/base/jquery-ui.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/vendor/normalize.min.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/app.css"> <script type="application/ld+json"> [{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "WebSite", "name": "Census Reporter", "url": "https://censusreporter.org" }, { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Organization", "name": "Census Reporter", "url": "https://censusreporter.org", "logo": "/static/img/logo.png", "sameAs": [ "http://twitter.com/censusreporter", "http://censusreporter.tumblr.com" ] } ] </script>  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-J4KYS0SFEW"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-J4KYS0SFEW'); </script> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/static/img/icons/favicon.ico" /> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/static/img/icons/touch-icon-144x144.png" sizes="144x144" /> <link href="/static/css/vendor/fontawesome/font-awesome-4.7.0.css" rel="preload" as="style"> <link href="/static/css/vendor/fontawesome/font-awesome-4.7.0.css" rel="stylesheet"> <script> // needed for full-text search among other things so just define it once and for all const MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN = 'pk.eyJ1IjoiY2Vuc3VzcmVwb3J0ZXIiLCJhIjoiQV9hS01rQSJ9.wtsn0FwmAdRV7cckopFKkA'; </script>  </head> <body id="topic-page" class="">  <header id="page-header"> <div id="page-header-title" class="wrapper clearfix"> <i id="menu-toggle" class="fa fa-bars"></i> <a class="title" href="/"> <img src="/static/img/logo.png" width="44" height="21" alt="Census Reporter Logo"> Census Reporter </a> <div id="menu" class="tool-set clearfix"> <form action="/search"> <div class="tool-group"> <input name="q" id="search-header" type="text" placeholder="Search for places, tables, topics, or glossaries" autocomplete="off"> </div> <span class="separator"></span> <div class="tool-group"> <a class="button" onClick="javascript:this.parentNode.parentNode.submit();"> <i class="fa fa-chevron-circle-right"></i> Search </a> </div> </form> </div> </div> </header> <div class="content-container wrapper clearfix"> <p id="help-feedback-solicitation" class="message message-help display-type">In addition to serving data, Census Reporter wants to help you understand how to use it. <a href="http://censusreporter.uservoice.com/" data-uv-trigger>Let us know</a> if there are topics you’d like to see us explain.</p> <article id="topics" class="topic"> <header> <h1>Topics</h1> <p>Pages describing the concepts and tables covered by the Census and American Community Survey.</p> </header> <section id="about_census"> <h2>About the Census</h2> <dl class="topics"> <dt id="topic-getting-started"><a href="/topics/getting-started/">Getting Started</a></dt> <dd><p>The Census is a big subject and there's a lot to learn, but you don't have to learn it all at once. Here's some help knowing the lay of the land.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-about-census"><a href="/topics/about-census/">About the Census</a></dt> <dd><p>A brief overview of the many data products produced by the Census Bureau, most of which are not available through Census Reporter.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-geography"><a href="/topics/geography/">Geography</a></dt> <dd><p>Geography is fundamental to the Census Bureau's process of tabulating data. Here are the key concepts you need to understand.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-table-codes"><a href="/topics/table-codes/">Table Codes</a></dt> <dd><p>While Census Reporter hopes to save you from the details, you may be interested to understand some of the rationale behind American Community Survey table identifiers.</p></dd> </dl> </section> <section id="topical_help"> <h2>Census Subjects</h2> <dl class="topics"> <dt id="topic-age-sex"><a href="/topics/age-sex/">Age and Sex</a></dt> <dd><p>How the Census approaches the topics of age and sex.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-ancestry"><a href="/topics/ancestry/">Ancestry</a></dt> <dd><p>The ACS gathers data on self-reported ancestry, whether or not respondents were born in the United States.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-children"><a href="/topics/children/">Children</a></dt> <dd><p>Tables concerning Children. Helpful to consider in relation to Families.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-citizenship"><a href="/topics/citizenship/">Citizenship</a></dt> <dd><p>Since its creation, the ACS has asked questions about citizenship, place of birth, and year of entry into the U.S.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-commute"><a href="/topics/commute/">Commute</a></dt> <dd><p>Commute data from the American Community Survey.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-computer-internet"><a href="/topics/computer-internet/">Computers and Internet</a></dt> <dd><p>Data on computer use and internet access from the ACS, and why it鈥檚 collected.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-disability"><a href="/topics/disability/">Disability</a></dt> <dd><p>The ACS collects data on six different kinds of difficulty to help communities provide adequate housing, health care, and assistance</p></dd> <dt id="topic-education"><a href="/topics/education/">Education</a></dt> <dd><p>The ACS collects data both about people currently enrolled in school, as well as the highest level attained by those no longer enrolled.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-employment"><a href="/topics/employment/">Employment</a></dt> <dd><p>While the ACS is not always the best source for employment data, it provides interesting information for small geographies that other sources don鈥檛 cover.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-families"><a href="/topics/families/">Families</a></dt> <dd><p>Families are an important topic in the ACS and a key framework for considering many kinds of data.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-group-quarters"><a href="/topics/group-quarters/">Group Quarters</a></dt> <dd><p>The ACS has special processes for gathering and reporting data about people who live in college dormitories, nursing facilities, military barracks, and correctional facilities.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-health-insurance"><a href="/topics/health-insurance/">Health Insurance</a></dt> <dd><p>The ACS has a number of questions that deal with health insurance and many corresponding tables.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-housing"><a href="/topics/housing/">Housing</a></dt> <dd><p>In addition to questions about people, Census collects extensive data about housing, including costs and physical characteristics of homes.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-income"><a href="/topics/income/">Income and Earnings</a></dt> <dd><p>How the Census approaches the topic of income.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-language"><a href="/topics/language/">Language</a></dt> <dd><p>Information about which languages survey respondents speak at home and their relative proficiency in English.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-marital-status"><a href="/topics/marital-status/">Marital Status</a></dt> <dd><p>The ACS presents data on people's current marital status, how many people's status changed in the last year, and their marital history.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-migration"><a href="/topics/migration/">Migration</a></dt> <dd><p>How the Census deals with migration data.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-poverty"><a href="/topics/poverty/">Poverty</a></dt> <dd><p>Poverty data and how it is used within the ACS.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-public-assistance"><a href="/topics/public-assistance/">Public Assistance</a></dt> <dd><p>Public assistance data from the ACS.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-race-hispanic"><a href="/topics/race-hispanic/">Race and Hispanic Origin</a></dt> <dd><p>Race is a complex issue, and no less so with Census data. A large proportion of Census tables are broken down by race.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-seniors"><a href="/topics/seniors/">Seniors</a></dt> <dd><p>In addition to basic Census data about age, there are a small number of Census tables which focus directly on data about older Americans, and on grandparents as caregivers.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-sexual-orientation-gender-identity"><a href="/topics/sexual-orientation-gender-identity/">Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity</a></dt> <dd><p>How the ACS deals with sexual orientation and gender identity is changing rapidly.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-technical"><a href="/topics/technical/">Technical Tables</a></dt> <dd><p>A subset of tables in the ACS provide information about technical details about how each survey was administered.</p></dd> <dt id="topic-veterans"><a href="/topics/veterans/">Veterans and Military</a></dt> <dd><p>Data collected about past and present members of the U.S. Armed Forces.</p></dd> </dl> </section> </article> </div> <footer id="page-footer"> <section class="wrapper footer-container clearfix"> <ul class="ul-icon-list column-third"> <li> <i class="fa fa-book"></i> <a href="/topics/">Learn about the Census</a> </li> <li> <i class="fa fa-info"></i> <a href="/about/">About Census Reporter</a> </li> </ul> <ul class="ul-icon-list column-third"> <li> <i class="fa fa-th-list"></i> <a href="/glossary/">Census terms & definitions</a> </li> <li> <i class="fa fa-twitter"></i> <a href="http://twitter.com/CensusReporter">@CensusReporter</a> </li> </ul> <ul class="ul-icon-list column-third"> <li> <i class="fa fa-comments"></i> <a href="https://censusreporter.uservoice.com/">Help & feedback</a> </li> <li> <i class="fa fa-github"></i> <a href="https://github.com/censusreporter/">Census Reporter on GitHub</a> </li> </ul> </section> <section class="wrapper footer-container clearfix trailer"> <p>Census Reporter is a free, open-source project. <a href="https://opencollective.com/censusreporter">Your donations</a> help us add new data to the site and keep it running.</p> <p>Data on Census Reporter comes from the US Census Bureau and is not copyrighted.</p> <p xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">Original text and data visualizations on <a property="dct:title" rel="cc:attributionURL" href="https://censusreporter.org">CensusReporter.org</a> by <span property="cc:attributionName">the Census Reporter project</span> are licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1" target="_blank" rel="license noopener noreferrer" style="display:inline-block;">CC BY 4.0<img style="margin-left:3px;vertical-align:text-bottom;" src="https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/cc.svg?ref=chooser-v1" alt=""><img style="margin-left:3px;vertical-align:text-bottom;" src="https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/by.svg?ref=chooser-v1" alt=""></a></p> </section> </footer> <script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/g/jquery@2.1,d3js@3.4,typeahead.js@0.10.2(typeahead.bundle.min.js),underscorejs@1.6,spinjs@1.3,handlebarsjs@1.3(handlebars.min.js)"></script> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.0/jquery-ui.min.js" integrity="sha256-eGE6blurk5sHj+rmkfsGYeKyZx3M4bG+ZlFyA7Kns7E=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> CR_API_URL = 'https://api.censusreporter.org'; </script> <script src="/static/js/app.js"></script> <script src="/static/js/glossary.js"></script> <script src="/static/js/widget.geo.select.js"></script> <script> jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $(document.body).on('click', '.lightbox', function(e) { e.preventDefault(); var lightbox = '<div id="lightbox"><div class="hovercard-wrapper"><div class="hovercard"><small class="close"><i class="fa fa-times-circle"></i> Close</small><img src="' + $(this).attr("href") + '" /></div></div></div>'; $('body').append(lightbox); }); // handle dismissals of lightbox $(document.body).on('keydown', function(e) { if (e.which == 27) { $('#lightbox').remove(); } }); $(document.body).on('click', '#lightbox', function(e) { $('#lightbox').remove(); }); Glossary.init("/glossary/", ".glossary-term"); }); </script> <script src="/static/js/widget.uservoice.js"></script> <script src="/static/js/full-text-results.js"></script> </body> </html>

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