A great resource introduced to us by the popular ArcUser Magazine... ACS collects detailed information on the characteristics of population and housing in the United States and Puerto Rico, including counties in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In August 2006, the Census Bureau will release its regular data products for ACS, reflecting data collected in 2005. These products will include data for areas affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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The Census Bureau is planning to develop a special ACS data product designed to reflect characteristics of areas in which Hurricanes Katrina and Rita had a major impact. This product will have two components: one representing the characteristics of these areas for the first eight months of 2005 (from January through August) and the other representing the characteristics of these areas for the last four months of 2005 (from September though December). The ACS sample is sufficiently large to provide "before" and "after" profiles of affected areas; however, producing eight- and four-month estimates means that the sample sizes and reliability of the estimates will be reduced. Other limitations of this special product include possible higher levels of nonresponse in some areas where it was very difficult to conduct interviews immediately after the hurricanes.
Thanks to Lisa Stone, publisher of The Sensor - the newsletter of the Enterprise for Innovative Geospatial Solutions (EIGS) - for featuring details of this topic in a recent newsletter. IF you don't already subscribe to The sensor and you're interested in geospatial news and business items affecting the Mississippi geospatial user community then I suggest you do so ASAP - To subscribe, visit www.eigs.olemiss.edu
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A great resource introduced to us by the popular ArcUser Magazine... ACS collects detailed information on the characteristics of population and housing in the United States and Puerto Rico, including counties in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In August 2006, the Census Bureau will release its regular data products for ACS, reflecting data collected in 2005. These products will include data for areas affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
