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Examining Small-scale Geographic Estimates from the American Community Survey 5-Year Data

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Examining Small-scale Geographic Estimates from the American Community Survey 5-Year Data

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Examining Small-scale Geographic Estimates from the American Community Survey 5-Year Data
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This paper provides an examination of a practical applied problem (levels of high school dropouts) using publicly-accessible data and information from the first 5-year data file of the American Community Survey. The central question of this analysis is whether these data – intended to be the replacement for decennial-census long form data – are analytically useful in understanding this issue. That is, from an analytic perspective, can the small scale geographic information from the ACS provide useful information on this issue? Recognizing that the ACS is a continually evolving and improving program, we would nevertheless hope that even this first geographically detailed data set will be of value to researchers, analysts and policy makers.

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