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Nonilex

The deletions began shortly after #Trump took office. #CDC web pages on #vaccines, #HIV prevention, & #ReproductiveHealth went missing. Findings on #BirdFlu transmission vanished minutes after they appeared. The #Census Bureau’s public repository went offline, then returned w/o certain directories of geographic info. The #DOJ expunged the #Jan6th #insurrection from its site, & whitehouse.gov took down an explainer page about the #Constitution.
#DigitalBookBurning
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/th

The New Yorker · The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s PurgeBy Julian Lucas
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Data Quine

Funding uncertainty threatens U.S. economic data, federal statistics : NPR
USA but touches on interesting broader long-term issues like preparation tests for national census and the need for changing methods to deal with general decline in public willingness to participate in official surveys.
In UK think #ONS has run into similar problems gathering work-related data
npr.org/2025/01/24/nx-s1-52502

#Statistics#USA#RStats
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Kim Perales

"Commerce Sec Lutnick has terminated all 3 Census Bureau Committees of outside advisers.

- #2030Census Advisory CMTE
- Census Scientific Advisory CMTE
- Nat. Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic & Other Pops.

I've reached out to the press offices of the bureau and the COMM Dept for comment...

Project 2025's plan calls for the Census Bureau's Nat. Advisory CMTE to be abolished"
-HL Wany

The Trump admin is WHITEwashing the census. It reveals the diversity of the US.

Census Bureau's building:
#USPol#Racism#Census
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Chuck Purvis

Federal Civilian Employed: 2023 (part 2)

California and Texas have the highest number of federal civilian employed (371 thousand and 361 thousand), but fair low share of jobs being federal (1.9% and 2.4%)

Virginia and Maryland are 3rd and 4th largest states in terms of US federal civilian workers

Table showing top 20 US states by the NUMBER of federal civilian employed workers. This is for the year 2023, based on single-year estimates from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
#Census#ACS
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Chuck Purvis

Federal Civilian Employed: 2023

The District of Columbia has the highest share of civilian employed by the US federal government, at 18.5%. This is followed by Maryland (10.2% of civilian jobs are federal); and Virginia (7.9%).

Nationally, 2.7% of civilian jobs are federal civilian jobs.

Table showing top 20 states ranked by federal civilian share of total civilian workers, based on the 2023 American Community Survey, single-year estimates, US Census Bureau. Top 3 states/districts are the District of Columbia (18.5%); Maryland (10.2%); and Virginia (7.9%).
#Census#ACS
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Chuck Purvis

Health Insurance: The Uninsured: 2023: Congressional Districts

30 US Congressional Districts with the HIGHEST share of Adult Population (age 19-64) WITHOUT any Health Insurance (The Uninsured).

24 of these 30 districts are in Texas. Worst is the Texas 29th, at 40.4% of adult population without health insurance.

Table showing top 30 US Congressional Districts ranked by share of adult (age 19 to 64) population with NO health insurance (the uninsured). This is from the US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, Single-Year Estimates for 2023, Table B27010. 24 of these 30 congressional districts are in Texas. Worst congressional district is the Texas 29th, at 40.4 percent of the adult population with No insurance.
#Census#ACS#ACA
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Chuck Purvis

Medicaid: 2023: Congressional Districts

Rank of top 30 US congressional districts by share of Adult (19-64 age) population with Medicaid, only, as their health insurance.

NY-15 has highest share: 40.1 percent of adult population is on Medicaid, only. Seven of the top 30 districts are in New York City.

Table showing top 30 US congressional districts ranked by share of adult population, age 19 to 64, with Medicaid as their sole health insurance. Top District is the 15th Congressional District in New York, (The Bronx) at 40.1 of adult population on medicaid. Severn of the top 30 districts are in New York City. Data is from the US Census Bureau, 2023 single-year estimates, American Community Survey, Table B27010. Analysis was conducted in the R software system and the packages tidycensus and tidyverse, with final cleanup of the tables in Excel.
#Census#ACS#Medicaid
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Chuck Purvis

Health Insurance 2023: Seniors 65+

99.2 percent of seniors age 65+ have health insurance! Highest share among all age groups.

34.2 percent of America's senior are dependent on Medicare, alone. Another 44.1 percent have Medicare in combo with other insurance.

Table showing types of health insurance by US senior population age 65 and over, in 2023. A majority of seniors have Medicare either alone or in combination with other types of insurances. Source: Census Bureau American Community Survey.
A facsiimile of the health insurance question asked on the 2023 American Community Surveys. An eight part question, where a yes or no answer is required of each.
#Census#ACS
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Chuck Purvis

Least racially/ethnically diverse congressional district in the US is the Kentucky 5th District (Ashland/Somerset/Middlesborough) represented by Harold Rogers.

Democrats represent four of the bottom 25 districts

Based on Census 2019-2023 American Community Survey five-year estimates.

Table showing 25 least racially/ethnically diverse congressional districts in the US. Data is from the Census Bureau's 2019-2023 estimates from the American Community Survey.
#Census#ACS
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Chuck Purvis

Most racially/ethnically diverse congressional district in the US is California's 12th District (Oakland/Berkeley/Alameda) represented by Lateefah Simon

24 of top 25 diverse congressional districts are represented by Democrats

2019-2023 American Community Survey five-year estimates

Table showing the 25 most racially diverse congressional districts in the US. 119th Congress (2025-2027). Based on five-year estimates from Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
#Census#ACS
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

This data may vanish under Trump, so we charted it
Some of most valuable #datasets in human history vanished from #US #government websites, felt like watching Library of Alexandria go up in smoke
Many have gone on record describing #Census Bureau’s #American Community Survey as wonder of modern world
Another loss? #HouseholdPulse survey, online survey that provided week-by-week data on income losses, economic struggles and precarious mental health
washingtonpost.com/business/20
archive.ph/mB512

The Washington Post · This data may vanish under Trump, so we charted itBy Andrew Van Dam
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Data Quine

Useful webinar "Analyzing Data from the 2023 American Community Survey in R" by Kyle Walker just finished. Think recordings will be available later.

Using {tidycensus} for working with USA census data. Has a nice worked example of adding error bars to a plot to show margin of error and polishing the visuals. And generally mapping the census data and using microdata.

walker-data.com/umich-workshop

walker-data.comAnalyzing Data from the 2023 American Community Survey in R
#Census#RStats#R
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