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Literacy rates of Asian countries
I think data.worldbank.org is going to be your best bet for getting this information.
Here is a direct link to the indicator for "Adult literacy rate, population 15+ years, both sexes (%)" (SE.ADT....
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Free CDN (content delivery network) serving US Census shapefiles?
The U.S. Census Bureau is relied upon across the country for economics, demographics, research, and planning purposes. It builds itself to be used in many ways. It already handles a high load of ...
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For a given 5 year ACS (American Community Survey), when is the effective date of estimation?
The ACS is a rolling annual sample. They take the sample for the entire year (about 3.5 million addresses in 2013) and divide it into 12 equal, monthly samples, and they mail out forms every month. So ...
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Countries with a Census
Most countries of the world have a Department of Statistics where they compile Census data. The various world census datasets, like CIA WFB, UN statistics, and Worldbank get their information from ...
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What encoding does the Census use in TIGER data?
According to this FAQ entry,
TIGER/Line Files and Shapefiles through 2014
Cartographic Boundary Files – Shapefiles through 2014
Partnership Shapefiles – through 2014
Were all delivered in ISO-8859-1 ...
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Independent Census Data for 3rd World Countries
you are looking for ipums international.
https://international.ipums.org/international/
easiest to analyze with
http://www.asdfree.com/2015/11/laptop-friendly-analysis-of-census-of.html
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2000 census data by block group
Block level data for the 2000 Census is included in the Summary File 1 (SF1) release here: https://www2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/Summary_File_1/ The rather impenetrable technical docs for the ...
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Seeking shapefiles for US Census Block Groups?
Based on their FAQ https://www.neighborhoodatlas.medicine.wisc.edu/ it looks like they are using 2009-2013 American Community Survey data. In which case, it is best to use the 2013 version of the ...
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2010 Russian Census Data in English
I've only seen this data in Russian, unfortunately.
From 2010, you can find census population data on Wikipedia but it's also in Russian. The link is here. Note that you can try the English ...
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Retrieve US Census Data in Excel format
The Census Bureau offered a tool for exactly this purpose, but it was discontinued as of last fall's data release. (See p. 3 of the Users Guide PDF)
Your reference to "API" is unclear. Are you a ...
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German municipality-level data (Gemeinde) on demographics
I came across an overview of employees (including demographics such as gender and migratory background) provided by the employment agency. Unfortunately one needs to pay 36 EUR to get it. Please check ...
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Do census tract geographic shapefile data update annually?
You're correct in that census tracts only change, if at all, after an official U.S. Census, which only occurs once per decade.
It seems to me that the user interface on FactFinder obscures this fact ...
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Is there a complete list of what US Census data is available for every type of geographic unit?
This page is pretty helpful: http://api.census.gov/data.html
Dataset name, description, link to geography list, link to variables list, documentation, API url, API examples.
You can't exactly see ...
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What are some good approaches for predicting sub-state level population changes before census data is released
The two commercial databases to visit are:
InfoGroup: These guys consolidate information on residents, including demographics and where you buy your cat food. Go to your library to run queries.
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Recommendations for calculating unemployment and labor force participation at the block group level
You can check the Census Bureau's documentation here - look at the Subject Definition file, page 63 under Employment Status:
http://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/code-...
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Recommendations for calculating unemployment and labor force participation at the block group level
As best I can tell, ACS table B23001 does not have data down to the block group level. It's probably the case that the sample sizes are too small to meet the Census Bureau's data quality standards.
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Human Mortality database around the world
There is no more reliable database than Human Mortality Database -- mortality.org. This database is run by demographers who use state-of-the-art methodology to overcome issues in the data. As the ...
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Microdata from the German Census
Access to microdata (and block level data) from the 2011 Census in Germany is subject to some restrictions.
Microdata is only available via an on-site access in a "Research Data Center". Access to ...
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Looking for the smoking count or rate per census tract in New York State
Sorry to be a bummer, but I don't think it exists.
For anything at census tract level you (almost always) need to go to either the SF1 files or the ACS files from census.gov. SF1 are just ...
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For a given 5 year ACS (American Community Survey), when is the effective date of estimation?
As a student of demography myself, my professor's often treat the effective date as the midpoint of the survey period. So for a 1-year survey period, the estimate would be said to be July 1st of that ...
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Retrieve US Census Data in Excel format
The Census Bureau has lots of data sets that are accessible through APIs. If you know how to write VBA code, you can access this data directly in Excel. You would need a json parser for VBA (simply ...
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Independent Census Data for 3rd World Countries
Both the United Nations Statistical Division and World Bank maintain databases related to population, and other vital statistics, for each country in the world. The data is collected from each country'...
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Year Structure Built of housing units
The American Community Survey has table B25034, which has columns for each decade from the 1940's to current (and another for "1939 or earlier"). Each column estimates the number of housing units in ...
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Matching 1980s address data to 1990 census geoid10?
My first thought is to use QGIS or ArcGIS and perform a spatial join.
You could use the 1990 Census Block Group shapefiles located here with your addresses/point data.
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Finding ward level administrative boundary data for india?
Village level boundaries for many parts of India is available here as JSON files as per 2001 census data
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Free CDN (content delivery network) serving US Census shapefiles?
Or https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-geodatabases.html
The census.gov tiger geodatabases have the political boundaries.
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Free CDN (content delivery network) serving US Census shapefiles?
If you are looking for the state leve boundaries, Michigan provides theirs through the MIGDL. http://gis.michigan.opendata.arcgis.com/
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USA census historical demographic data
The NHGIS at the Minnesota Population Center / Univ of Minnesota is probably the most comprehensive source for historical US Census data - it has the complete summary data for each census going back ...
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