Missouri Census Data Center

Quiz

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MCDC Data Product Inventory and Showcase Page

Pop Estimates and Projections American Community Survey 2000 Decennial Census
Geographic Reference Public Data Archive (via Uexplore/Dexter) Other

Population Estimates and Projections

The answers to the questions in this section can be found by using the applications referenced in the corresponding section on the Product Inventory and Showcase page.

  1. Which of the following states - California, Texas, Florida, Arizona - had the highest annual rate of growth of the hispanic population over the period from 2000 to 2007?

  2. In which years since 2000 has St. Louis County, MO experienced an increase in population?

  3. What is the current population estimate for Jackson County, MO? For the city of Kansas City, MO?

  4. According to the latest official Missouri population projections what will the total population of Warren County be in 2020?

  5. How many people in the state of Missouri were between the ages of 59 and 74 in 2007?

  6. What was the estimated Asian (alone) population of Los Angeles County, CA in 2008?

American Community Survey
The answers to the questions in this section can be found by using the applications referenced in the corresponding section on the Product Inventory and Showcase page.

  1. Between St. Charles and St. Louis counties in Missouri, which county had the higher median household income in 2007 as estimated using only 2007 ACS data. How did these figures compare with the value for the state of Missouri?

  2. According to the American Community Survey the Average cash public assistance income in Cook County, Illinois decreased between 2006 and 2007. What was the change in dollars and as a percentage of the 2006 value?

  3. What does it mean when a value is displayed in an extremely light font on one of the MCDC's ACS Profile reports? How would you know about this?

  4. How many people in Cape Girardeau county, MO spoke a language other than English, according to the data gathered in the 2007 ACS? Same question for Bollinger county.

  5. Name eight measures of economic well being that are contained in the MCDC's standard profile reports/data sets.

  6. What are the two key population threshold values that determine whether a geographic area will be data based on a single year of ACS data, or based on 3 years of data, or based on 5 years of data? Explain how this works.

  7. Your boss tells you that he can hardly wait for the latest ACS data to be released in September because he wants to find out how many people now live in your county. What should you tell him?

Geographic Reference
The answers to the questions in this section can be found by using the applications referenced in the corresponding section on the Product Inventory and Showcase page.

  1. What kind of information is contained on the MAGGOT page?

  2. What counties comprise the Chicago-Napierville-Joliet MSA (CBSA) and what were their estimated 2008 populations?

  3. What is the official (FIPS) code for the Altoona, PA Urbanized Area?

  4. What county or counties comprise the California "5%" PUMA with code 01000?

  5. Where can you find the mo_puma5.pdf map file that shows the boundaries of Missouri's PUMAs? What about the companion report file mopumas.pdf? Why would these files be of any interest to people interested in ACS data?

Public Data Archive (via Uexplore/Dexter)
The answers to the questions in this section can be found by using the applications referenced in the corresponding section on the Product Inventory and Showcase page.

  1. What is the name of the module that actually does the data extractions from the archive?

  2. Explain how the information displayed by uexplore when you click on a directory name differs from what you see displayed on a Datasets.html page within that directory.

  3. Using the detailed metadata page for the dataset mocogeos in the "filetype" directory georef, determine the values and meanings of the RPC codes used on that data set.

  4. What are two good ways to be stay informed of significant updates to the data archive?

  5. How would you go about finding out where the latest ACS data are stored in the data archive?

  6. What do we mean by the term sf3200x filetype?

2000 Decennial Census
The answers to the questions in this section can be found by using the applications referenced in the corresponding section on the Product Inventory and Showcase page.

  1. What is the URL that will display "MCDC Demographic Profile 3, 2000 Census" for ZIP code (ZCTA) 65203? How do you navigate to this link?

  2. What is the estimated 2000 census population of the Boonslick RPC?

  3. What happens if you enter "63105" in the text box labeled "Latitude" on the CAPS application page?

  4. In the standard "dp3_2k" standard profile there is a Table 22 dealing with Poverty data. There is a "P87" link in the rightmost column of that table. What happens when you click on that link?

  5. If the governor asked you for the most detailed set of tables you could think of dealing with poverty in the state of Missouri as reported in the 2000 decennial census, to what page on the MCDC web site would you refer him?

Other
The answers to the questions in this section can be found by using the applications referenced in the corresponding section on the Product Inventory and Showcase page.

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