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Maps that look at the US Census at the macro-perspective of all counties in the United States.

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The 2020 Census Data For Voting Districts Will Be Available Aug. 12 : NPR

After months of delays, the 2020 census results used to redraw voting districts around the country will finally be released on Aug. 12, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday.

In a tweet, the federal government's largest statistical agency confirmed that the detailed demographic data will be posted on its website four days sooner than Aug. 16, the previously announced deadline the bureau had agreed to meet as part of a lawsuit by Ohio over the data's release schedule.

The coronavirus pandemic and interference by the administration of former President Donald Trump have forced the bureau to put out new redistricting data about five months later than its original schedule in order to run more quality checks.

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Now that I’ve learned all of the advantages data processing with Python, I think my next adventure is going to be to figure out how to directly query the various Census databases directly rather than downloading the individual zip files from then editing and processing them in LibreOffice Calc. I’d much rather try to automate as much of this as possible so I can do new concepts for the blog, importing and mapping even more data.

It sure would be nice to able to get full census tables for a county with a few lines of code and have them dumped into a CSV file for a chart or to link to a map.

Percent Of Houses Lacking Complete Plumbing Facalities

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This map shows the number of houses, per US County lacking complete plumbing facilities. This includes both occupied and unoccupied housing units, e.g. seasonal cabins. The US Census defines complete plumbing facilities are houses with hot and cold running water, a flush toilet, a bathtub or shower, a sink with a faucet, a stove or range, and a refrigerator. Rural counties, with a lot of cabins, are most likely to have a large number of housing units without complete plumbing facilities.

Data Source: Complete Plumbing Facilities, 2011-2015 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml?refresh=t

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Biden Revives An Effort To Change How The U.S. Census Asks About Race : NPR

President Biden's White House is reviving a previously stalled review of proposed policy changes that could allow the Census Bureau to ask about people's race and ethnicity in a radical new way in time for the 2030 head count, NPR has learned.

First proposed in 2016, the recommendations lost steam during former President Donald Trump's administration despite years of research by the bureau that suggested a new question format would improve the accuracy of 2020 census data about Latinos and people with roots in the Middle East or North Africa.

The proposals also appear to have received the backing of other federal government experts on data about race and ethnicity, based on a redacted document that NPR obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The document lists headings for redacted descriptions of the group's "recommended improvements," including "Improve data quality: Allow flexibility in question format for self-reported race and ethnicity."