GEOG 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Measles, American Community Survey, Current Population Survey (Us)
23 Oct 2018
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Geodemographics would not be possible without reliable available (public) data about populations. Incidence data: counts of events as they occur. Enumeration data: counts of people and measurements of their characteristics. Example: age, occupation, income in the previous year, etc. Such as birth, death, certificates , divorce decrees, Events are registered continuously, but compiled periodically. Often additional information is provided such as as age of death, most recent occupation, race, etc. Reportable diseases such as tb, std, rabies, measles, aids. Data is a by product of administration. Us department of health and human services. Indirect sources such as the us postal service data. Current population survey (cps (monthly frequent survey of 50,000 american households, primarily economic)) The u. s. census counts every resident in the united states. The data collected by the decennial census determine the number of seats each state has in the u. s. house of reps and is also used to distributed billions in federal funds to local communities.
