47998
American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates for Coastal Geographies
AmericanCommunitySurvey_CoastalGeographies
Data Set
Published / External
37226
Demographic
Project
Completed
2014
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
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.
10860
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.
Theme
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > HUMAN SETTLEMENTS > COASTAL AREAS
Theme
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > POPULATION > POPULATION ESTIMATES
Theme
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > SOCIAL BEHAVIOR > HAZARD MITIGATION/PLANNING
Theme
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > SOCIOECONOMICS > HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Theme
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > SOCIOECONOMICS > POVERTY LEVELS
Theme
ISO 19115 Topic Category
oceans
Theme
ISO 19115 Topic Category
society
Spatial
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Theme
socioeconomic
age
Theme
socioeconomic
block group
Theme
socioeconomic
demographic
Theme
socioeconomic
economic
Theme
socioeconomic
income distribution
Theme
socioeconomic
population
Theme
socioeconomic
racial and ethnic compositions
Theme
socioeconomic
time series demographic
Spatial
Coastal counties
Spatial
United States
Office for Coastal Management
Charleston
SC
Data Set
Annually
The American Community Survey (ACS) is the new source for detailed demographic, social, economic, and housing characteristics
Detailed attribute information can be found here: https://www.coast.noaa.gov/htdata/SocioEconomic/AmericanCommunitySurvey/AmericanCommunitySurvey_DataDictionary.pdf
Any conclusions drawn from the analysis of this information are not the responsibility of the NOAA Coastal Services Center or its partners.
Data Steward
2014
Organization
NOAA Office for Coastal Management
NOAA/OCM
coastal.info@noaa.gov
2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
(843) 740-1202
https://coast.noaa.gov
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page
Online Resource
Distributor
2014
Organization
NOAA Office for Coastal Management
NOAA/OCM
coastal.info@noaa.gov
2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
(843) 740-1202
https://coast.noaa.gov
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page
Online Resource
Metadata Contact
2014
Organization
NOAA Office for Coastal Management
NOAA/OCM
coastal.info@noaa.gov
2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
(843) 740-1202
https://coast.noaa.gov
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page
Online Resource
Point of Contact
2014
Organization
NOAA Office for Coastal Management
NOAA/OCM
coastal.info@noaa.gov
2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
(843) 740-1202
https://coast.noaa.gov
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page
Online Resource
Publication Date
-178.217598
-66.969271
71.406235
18.921786
Range
2005
2014
Unclassified
None
None
https://coast.noaa.gov/dataregistry/search/collection/info/acs
Online Resource
https://coast.noaa.gov/dataregistry/search/dataset/2E5D106C-F6B0-40F1-BFBC-BD5BE787769F
Online Resource
https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
Online Resource
2017-10-31
Date that the source FGDC record was last modified.
2017-11-14
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.
All of the data reported in these data files met the QA specifications.
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.
ACS 2010-2014 Block Group Level Summary File
Unites States Census Bureau
2015-01-01
Range
2005
2014
ACS 2006-2010 Block Group Level Summary File | Type of Source Media: database
1
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.
2011-01-01T00:00:00
ACS 2010-2014 Block Group Level Summary File
gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:47998
Anne Ball
2017-11-14T14:03:06
SysAdmin InPortAdmin
2023-05-30T18:09:29
2017-11-16
Office for Coastal Management
OCM
1002
Public
No
2017-11-16
1 Year
2018-11-16