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

Data Set (DS)  |  Office for Coastal Management (OCM)
GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:47998  |  Updated: May 30, 2023  |  Published / External 
Summary
Item Identification
Keywords
Physical Location
Data Set Info
Support Roles
Extents
Access Info
URLs
Activity Log
Data Quality
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Catalog Details

Summary

Short Citation
Office for Coastal Management, 2024: American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates for Coastal Geographies, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/47998.
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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

Distribution Information

No Distributions available.

Access Constraints:

None

Use Constraints:

None

Controlled Theme Keywords

COASTAL AREAS, HAZARD MITIGATION/PLANNING, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, oceans, POPULATION ESTIMATES, POVERTY LEVELS, society

Child Items

No Child Items for this record.

Contact Information

Point of Contact
NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
coastal.info@noaa.gov
(843) 740-1202

Metadata Contact
NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
coastal.info@noaa.gov
(843) 740-1202

Extents

Geographic Area 1

-178.217598° W, -66.969271° E, 71.406235° N, 18.921786° S

Time Frame 1
2005 - 2014

Item Identification

Title: American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates for Coastal Geographies
Short Name: AmericanCommunitySurvey_CoastalGeographies
Status: Completed
Publication Date: 2014
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
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.
Notes:

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Supplemental Information:

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.

Keywords

Theme Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > HUMAN SETTLEMENTS > COASTAL AREAS
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > POPULATION > POPULATION ESTIMATES
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > SOCIAL BEHAVIOR > HAZARD MITIGATION/PLANNING
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > SOCIOECONOMICS > HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > SOCIOECONOMICS > POVERTY LEVELS
ISO 19115 Topic Category
oceans
ISO 19115 Topic Category
society
UNCONTROLLED
socioeconomic age
socioeconomic block group
socioeconomic demographic
socioeconomic economic
socioeconomic income distribution
socioeconomic population
socioeconomic racial and ethnic compositions
socioeconomic time series demographic

Spatial Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
UNCONTROLLED
None Coastal counties
None United States

Physical Location

Organization: Office for Coastal Management
City: Charleston
State/Province: SC

Data Set Information

Data Set Scope Code: Data Set
Maintenance Frequency: Annually
Entity Attribute Overview:

The American Community Survey (ACS) is the new source for detailed demographic, social, economic, and housing characteristics
Entity Attribute Detail Citation:

Detailed attribute information can be found here: https://www.coast.noaa.gov/htdata/SocioEconomic/AmericanCommunitySurvey/AmericanCommunitySurvey_DataDictionary.pdf
Distribution Liability:

Any conclusions drawn from the analysis of this information are not the responsibility of the NOAA Coastal Services Center or its partners.

Support Roles

Data Steward

CC ID: 616007
Date Effective From: 2014
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Address: 2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston, SC 29405-2413
Email Address: coastal.info@noaa.gov
Phone: (843) 740-1202
URL: https://coast.noaa.gov

Distributor

CC ID: 616009
Date Effective From: 2014
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Address: 2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston, SC 29405-2413
Email Address: coastal.info@noaa.gov
Phone: (843) 740-1202
URL: https://coast.noaa.gov

Metadata Contact

CC ID: 616010
Date Effective From: 2014
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Address: 2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston, SC 29405-2413
Email Address: coastal.info@noaa.gov
Phone: (843) 740-1202
URL: https://coast.noaa.gov

Point of Contact

CC ID: 616008
Date Effective From: 2014
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Address: 2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston, SC 29405-2413
Email Address: coastal.info@noaa.gov
Phone: (843) 740-1202
URL: https://coast.noaa.gov

Extents

Currentness Reference: Publication Date

Extent Group 1

Extent Group 1 / Geographic Area 1

CC ID: 616013
W° Bound: -178.217598
E° Bound: -66.969271
N° Bound: 71.406235
S° Bound: 18.921786

Extent Group 1 / Time Frame 1

CC ID: 616012
Time Frame Type: Range
Start: 2005
End: 2014

Access Information

Security Class: Unclassified
Data Access Constraints:

None
Data Use Constraints:

None

URLs

URL 1

CC ID: 616004
URL: https://coast.noaa.gov/dataregistry/search/dataset/2E5D106C-F6B0-40F1-BFBC-BD5BE787769F
URL Type:
Online Resource

URL 2

CC ID: 616005
URL: https://coast.noaa.gov/dataregistry/search/collection/info/acs
URL Type:
Online Resource

URL 3

CC ID: 616006
URL: https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
URL Type:
Online Resource

Activity Log

Activity Log 1

CC ID: 616035
Activity Date/Time: 2017-10-31
Description:

Date that the source FGDC record was last modified.

Activity Log 2

CC ID: 616034
Activity Date/Time: 2017-11-14
Description:

Converted from FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using 'fgdc_to_inport_xml.pl' script. Contact Tyler Christensen (NOS) for details.

Data Quality

Completeness Report:

All of the data reported in these data files met the QA specifications.
Conceptual Consistency:

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.

Lineage

Sources

ACS 2010-2014 Block Group Level Summary File

CC ID: 616001
Contact Name: Unites States Census Bureau
Publish Date: 2015-01-01
Extent Type: Range
Extent Start Date/Time: 2005
Extent End Date/Time: 2014
Source Contribution:

ACS 2006-2010 Block Group Level Summary File | Type of Source Media: database

Process Steps

Process Step 1

CC ID: 616002
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.
Process Date/Time: 2011-01-01 00:00:00
Source: ACS 2010-2014 Block Group Level Summary File

Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID: 47998
GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:47998
Metadata Record Created By: Anne Ball
Metadata Record Created: 2017-11-14 14:03+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By: SysAdmin InPortAdmin
Metadata Record Last Modified: 2023-05-30 18:09+0000
Metadata Record Published: 2017-11-16
Owner Org: OCM
Metadata Publication Status: Published Externally
Do Not Publish?: N
Metadata Last Review Date: 2017-11-16
Metadata Review Frequency: 1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date: 2018-11-16