{"id":1062,"date":"2024-06-21T14:47:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T19:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:38:58","slug":"dhc-2020-profiles-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/dhc-2020-profiles-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"DHC 2020 Profiles Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MCDC has added two new web applications for browsing the 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics (DHC) data.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2023, we posted our &#8220;standard extracts&#8221; (also called <em>profiles<\/em>) of the DHC data \u2014 a set of just over 100 key variables from the ~9,000 table cells in the complete 2020 DHC file. This collection is located in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/applications\/uexplore.php?\/data\/dhc2020x\">\/data\/dhc2020x<\/a>\u00a0directory and is also accessible from our <a href=\"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/applications\/uexplore.html\">data portal page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The two new web apps facilitate browsing and extracting data from the profiles. The <a href=\"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/applications\/census2020\/DHC\/\">Census 2020 DHC Extract Assistant<\/a> is a portal for accessing the collection of SAS datasets linked above. Essentially, it&#8217;s a easy-to-use, menu-driven front end for the Dexter data extractor, customized for the DHC Profiles collection. Users may use basic presets, or select the &#8220;advanced&#8221; option to pass through to the standard Dexter form for additional filters. The application can output web tables, CSV files, PDFs, SAS, and DBF data files.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/applications\/census2020\/\">Census 2020 Profile Report<\/a> application offers a simple interface for selecting up to four areas and generating a report listing all of the DHC profile values for each selected area. This is the easiest option for quick results.<\/p>\n<p>Geographic coverage for both apps includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Census regions<\/li>\n<li>Census divisions<\/li>\n<li>States<\/li>\n<li>Counties<\/li>\n<li>Minor civil divisions (county subdivisions)<\/li>\n<li>Places (cities, towns)<\/li>\n<li>Metropolitan\/micropolitan statistical areas<\/li>\n<li>Census tracts<\/li>\n<li>Census block groups<\/li>\n<li>Census blocks<\/li>\n<li>Urban areas (complete and state portions)<\/li>\n<li>Congressional districts (118th Congress)<\/li>\n<li>State senate districts<\/li>\n<li>State house districts<\/li>\n<li>Public use microdata areas (PUMAs)<\/li>\n<li>ZIP Codes (ZCTAs) within state<\/li>\n<li>Elementary school districts<\/li>\n<li>Secondary school districts<\/li>\n<li>Unified school districts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MCDC has added two new web applications for browsing the 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics (DHC) data. In August 2023, we posted our &#8220;standard extracts&#8221; (also called profiles) of the DHC data \u2014 a set of just over 100 key variables from the ~9,000 table cells in the complete 2020 DHC file. This collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,42,45,22,70],"tags":[86,73,119],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-updates","category-demographics","category-housing","category-news","category-united-states","tag-census","tag-census-2020","tag-dhc"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","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=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}