by Elyse Menger | Jun 2, 2022 | Census
On the plane from Dallas to Las Vegas on the way to ICSC, I sat next to a broker from Marcus & Millichap. We of course talked about the show, and he asked what we do here at AGS. Inevitably, the question always comes up: can’t people just use the Census data? The...
by Gary Menger | May 5, 2022 | Census
The Census Bureau began the task of building a digital map base for the United States several decades ago with the development of the DIME (Dual Independent Map Encoding) files in the 1970’s. By the release of the 1990 Census, the TIGER (Topologically Integrated...
by Elyse Menger | Apr 7, 2022 | Census
As we await the full release of the 2020 Census data, we plan to periodically keep you updated on our plans to integrate the data into our databases. While the Census Bureau is changing dates for releases, this is a tentative schedule. Our 2021A update included the...
by Gary Menger | Jan 20, 2022 | Census, Menger's Musings
As a rule, we at AGS are not overly keen on the approach of talking about competitors negatively. Perhaps it is our polite Canadian heritage, where we are more likely to say that we are sorry for something we didn’t do than point fingers at the ones who did....
by Elyse Menger | Dec 2, 2021 | Canada Data, Census, Menger's Musings
The recent publication of the redistricting release of the 2020 census has resulted in some discussion about some of its more surprising results. The white population declined from 223.5 to 204.7 million between 2010 and 2020, by all accounts an unprecedented change....
by Elyse Menger | Nov 4, 2021 | Census
To further help users understand how the privacy budget has affected small area data, we decided to deep dive into a specific area to see how it looks on the ground. We chose a block group which we know that has not changed over the past ten years, located in a...
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