Documentation: ACS 2013 (5-Year Estimates)
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Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau
Document: ACS 2013-5yr Summary File: Technical Documentation
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ACS 2013-5yr Summary File: Technical Documentation
3. User References and Website Resources
3.1. Detailed Tables for the ACS Estimates
The table list in Appendix A for each data release contains information on all Detailed Tables included in the ACS Summary File. This appendix also includes a complete list of tables and their geography restrictions. For data quality and geographic reasons, some tables are published with specific geography restrictions. For example, the table B05001-PR, Citizenship Status in Puerto Rico, is produced for Puerto Rico only, and the table B08501, Means Of Transportation To Work By Age For Workplace Geography, is only produced for the work place geographies.
3.2. ACS Summary Levels/Components For Detailed Tables
Appendix B for each release contains a list of the summary levels and components that are included in the ACS Detailed Tables.
3.3. ACS Summary File Page
The ACS Summary File page at http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/summary_file/ contains links to all of the data, documentation, and user tools associated with the ACS Summary File. This includes the data, templates, technical documents and appendices, Summary File Retrieval Tool, table shells, sequence number table number lookup files, SAS programs, DataFerrett, and TIGER/Line Shapefiles pre-joined with ACS estimates.
3.4. ACS Summary File User Tools Page
More information about the user tools described in Chapter 1.4, such as the Summary File Retrieval Tool, Excel Import Tool, SAS tools, and DataFerrett, is available on the ACS Summary File page in the Summary File User Tools section at http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/summary_file/.
3.5. Supplemental Documentation
Supplemental documentation concerning the American Community Survey to assist users using this technical document is located on the ACS website at http://www.census.gov/acs/www/ data_documentation/documentation_main/ . Documents such as the Subject Definitions, Accuracy of the Data, and Code Lists are available on the URL listed above.
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