{"id":1034,"date":"2023-09-13T10:37:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:39:05","slug":"data-updates-september-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/data-updates-september-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Updates (September 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a few routine data and application updates to announce this month.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On August 24, we posted new a zcta_master set to our <a href=\"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/applications\/uexplore.php?\/data\/georef\">geographic reference data collection<\/a>. Zcta_master is a comprehensive ZCTA (ZIP Code Tabulation Area) resource with geographic correspondences and vintage 2021 ACS-based demographics. This new version uses ZCTAs as defined for the 2020 census. We have our usual SAS dataset, accessible via the Dexter data extraction tool, as well as a CSV file.<\/li>\n<li>We found some minor errors in the new DHC data collection. Tract codes were missing final digits. These have been corrected.<\/li>\n<li>Two of our workhorse data applications, uex2dex and Dexter, underwent substantial code updates and revisions.<\/li>\n<li>Just this week, we published the 2022-vintage round of intercensal <a href=\"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/applications\/uexplore.php?\/data\/popests\">population estimates<\/a>, released earlier this year. These include the CASRH (characteristics of age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin) data for all states, population ranks, housing unit estimates, and the new &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/data\/popests\/curmoests2022.xlsx\">curmoests<\/a>&#8221; Excel file (Missouri current population estimates for the state, counties, subcounty units, and cities and towns).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please contact the <a href=\"mailto:riceg@missouri.edu\">MCDC web manager<\/a>\u00a0with any questions or comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a few routine data and application updates to announce this month. On August 24, we posted new a zcta_master set to our geographic reference data collection. Zcta_master is a comprehensive ZCTA (ZIP Code Tabulation Area) resource with geographic correspondences and vintage 2021 ACS-based demographics. This new version uses ZCTAs as defined for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,89,42,45,29,22],"tags":[101,99,27],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-application-updates","category-data-updates","category-demographics","category-housing","category-missouri","category-news","tag-geography","tag-housing","tag-population"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}