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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

More Results from the Newest ACS Data Release

People are having a lot of fun with the latest release of American Community Survey data, which represent our first look at census tract level data since the release of the 2000 census data. These data are coming to us well ahead of when we would have had such information had the census clung to the old long form instead of pushing ahead with the ACS. The New York Times leads with the story of the suburbanization of minority groups in the US, which factors into the potential for diminished levels of residential segregation. On that score, the NYT notes that William Frey's assessment of residential segregation from these data is not entirely in line with the analysis of John Logan at Brown University, who used data from a slightly different scale to conclude that there has been no real change in patterns of residential segregation. We will hear more about that as time goes on, I'm sure.


Naturally, when asked, I offered my opinions of what the data tell us about demographic changes in San Diego, which include an increasing minority (largely Hispanic) population, as well as confirmation of the very tight spatial concentration of the Iraqi-born Chaldean population in San Diego County.

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