American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates for Coastal Geographies

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Resource Abstract:
The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing statistical survey that samples a small percentage of the population every year. These data have been apportioned to 13 coastal geographies, and contain detailed demographic, social, economic, and housing characteristics. They represent 5-year estimates derived from the ACS Block Group summary files. Detailed information on the ACS data can be found at the Census Bureau's American Community Survey website and in their researcher's guide entitled, "A Compass for Understanding and Using American Community Survey Data". Detailed information on the geographies the data are available for can be found here: https://coast.noaa.gov/data/digitalcoast/pdf/qrt-american-community-description.pdf
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Title American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates for Coastal Geographies
alternateTitle  AmericanCommunitySurvey_CoastalGeographies
publication  Date   2014
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URL: https://coast.noaa.gov/dataregistry/search/dataset/2E5D106C-F6B0-40F1-BFBC-BD5BE787769F
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URL: https://coast.noaa.gov/dataregistry/search/collection/info/acs
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Topic Category:  oceans,society
Keywords:
Theme keywords (theme):
age
block group
demographic
economic
income distribution
income distribution
population
population
racial and ethnic compositions
time series demographic
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Title socioeconomic
Theme keywords (theme):
Earth Science > Human Dimensions > Human Settlements > Coastal Areas
Earth Science > Human Dimensions > Population > Population Estimates
Earth Science > Human Dimensions > Social Behavior > Hazard Mitigation/Planning
Earth Science > Human Dimensions > Socioeconomics > Household Income
Earth Science > Human Dimensions > Socioeconomics > Poverty Levels
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Title Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
Location keywords:
Coastal counties
United States
Location keywords:
Continent > North America > United States Of America
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Title Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
dataCenter Keywords
DOC/NOAA/NOS/OCM > Office of Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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Title Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
publication  Date   2017-04-24
Edition 8.5
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Demographic
purpose:
The purpose of the time series demographic statistics data files is to provide users with socio-demographic information such as population, age, structures, racial and ethnic composition, income contributions, and residential mobility in a format that facilitates comparisons across time and space.
Resource language:  eng; US
Resource progress code:  completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  annually
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Access Constraints: None | Use Constraints: None | Distribution Liability: Any conclusions drawn from the analysis of this information are not the responsibility of the NOAA Coastal Services Center or its partners.
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Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -178.217598
eastBoundLongitude  -66.969271
northBoundLatitude  71.406235
southBoundLatitude  18.921786
Temporal Extent
| Currentness: Publication Date 2005 2014
Additional information on resource:
Many of the goals of those involved in coastal management and policy include finding the balance in the coexistence of natural ecosystems and human society, therefore a complete picture of the geographic patterns of human activity and its relationship to the coastal environment is needed.
point of contact - pointOfContact
individual Name Coastal Management, NOAA Office for
organisation Name  Office for Coastal Management
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Voice (843) 740-1202
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Address
2234 South Hobson Ave, Charleston, SC, 29405-2413 Country 
electronic Mail Address coastal.info@noaa.gov
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individual Name Coastal Management, NOAA Office for
organisation Name  Office for Coastal Management
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Voice (843) 740-1202
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Address
2234 South Hobson Ave, Charleston, SC, 29405-2413 Country 
electronic Mail Address coastal.info@noaa.gov
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name Website
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catalog language  eng
Included With Dataset  false
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Scope of quality information
scope level  dataset
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Processing Step
date and time 2011-01-01T00:00:00
description The 2010 Census Block Group polygons were imported into a GIS system to assign these polygons to political, place-based management program boundaries, and watershed/other jurisdictions. Estimates were obtained through a GIS overlay operation of Census Block Groups with all boundaries or study areas of interest. Block Groups that fell partially in the areas of interest were prorated by area to be included in the estimates (block group area proration methodology). The ACS 2010-2014 demographic variables data of block groups were then merged with the 2010 block group file containing the proration factors, adjusted by the proration factors, and then summarized to the study areas of interest. The exception of this process is County and State level estimates which were obtained by summarizing the ACS 2010-2014 demographic variables by the existent appropriate geography code in the file associated to each Census Block Group data. For description of jurisdictions or geographies used in this dataset, refer to https://coast.noaa.gov/data/digitalcoast/pdf/qrt-american-community-description.pdf.All data manipulation was done using the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) software. The data are kept as SAS files and exported out as comma separated delimited and Microsoft Excel format for users' accessibility.
source
source description  Source Contribution: ACS 2006-2010 Block Group Level Summary File | Type of Source Media: database
source citation
Title ACS 2010-2014 Block Group Level Summary File
publication  Date   2015-01-01
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
2005 2014
Completeness Commission
name Of Measure Completeness Report
evaluation Method Description  All of the data reported in these data files met the QA specifications.
ConceptualConsistency
name Of Measure Conceptual Consistency
evaluation Method Description  Data estimated for counties and states compared well with data reported in the U.S. Census Bureau site. ACS data estimated in other STICS geographies of interest (ex. watershed) were compared against data estimated for the same geographies of interest when using Census 2010 estimates. The differences found were in the range of 2% difference.

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Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
individual Name Coastal Management, NOAA Office for
organisation Name  Office for Coastal Management
Contact information
Telephone
Voice (843) 740-1202
Fax 
Address
2234 South Hobson Ave, Charleston, SC, 29405-2413 Country 
electronic Mail Address coastal.info@noaa.gov
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name Website
URL: https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
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URL: https://coast.noaa.gov/dataregistry/search/collection/info/acs
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Metadata data stamp:  2017-11-27T11:42:42
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Use Constraints: Disclaimer - While every effort has been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the limits of the current state of the art, NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data, nor as a result of the failure of the data to function on a particular system. NOAA makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty.
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organisation Name  Office for Coastal Management
Contact information
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Voice 
Address
2234 South Hobson Avenue, Charleston, SC, 29405-2413
Linkage for online resource
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individual Name Coastal Management, NOAA Office for
organisation Name  Office for Coastal Management
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Voice (843) 740-1202
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Address
2234 South Hobson Ave, Charleston, SC, 29405-2413 Country 
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Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for imagery and gridded data
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Metadata record identifier:  gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:47998

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