by Gary Menger | Apr 13, 2023 | Census, Menger's Musings
Prior to the 2020 census, there was considerable debate about the politicization of the census through the proposed question on immigration status. The ultimate decision by the Supreme Court to disallow the question was largely because of the concern that the accuracy...
by Elyse Menger | Apr 6, 2023 | Census, Data Releases
As we told you about a few months back, the geographic rosters for Connecticut are changing. The counties are being replaced by a new set of areas that are being called ‘Planning Regions’ and will be considered as part of the county level of geography. These changes...
by Elyse Menger | Mar 23, 2023 | Census
After several revised publication dates over the past two years, the Census Bureau is threatening to finally release the detailed counts from the 2020 census starting in May with the DHC (Demographic and Housing Characteristics) file. We won’t pretend to be...
by Elyse Menger | Feb 2, 2023 | Census, Why AGS
When the Census data is released every ten years, the geographic boundaries change. The 2020 Census provided unique challenges with the data and geography that we have extensively covered on the blog. To best serve our clients, we carry a complete range of standard...
by Gary Menger | Aug 18, 2022 | Census
During the years prior to the 2020 census, many in the industry understood that the Census Bureau was headed down a path which was sure to reduce the utility of the decennial census. The essential claim was that it was possible to match census respondents to geocoded...
by Gary Menger | Aug 18, 2022 | Census
It is a familiar story heard here at AGS… “I loaded the data that I received from you into my GIS application, but when I map it, there is a county with no data. Please take a look at the attached map. Why don’t you have data for this area?” The accompanying map...
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