The 2007-2011 ACS 5-Year Summary File Technical Documentation - Survey ACS 2011 (5-Year Estimates)

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Survey: ACS 2011 (5-Year Estimates)

Document:	The 2007-2011 ACS 5-Year Summary File Technical Documentation
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ACS 2011 (5-Year Estimates)

The 2007-2011 ACS 5-Year Summary File Technical Documentation

1. Introduction

1.1. The American Community Survey

1.2. The American Community Survey Summary File

1.3. Topics and Geographies Covered

1.4. Tools for Obtaining Data

1.5. Notable Changes to the Summary File

1.6. Contact Us

2. How to Use the ACS Summary File

2.1. Locating the Summary File

2.2. Summary File Organization

2.3. Sequence Numbers

2.4. Geography File

2.5. Estimate and Margin of Error Files

2.6. How to Join the ACS Summary File to the TIGER/Line Shapefiles

3. User Tools

3.1. Summary File Excel Retrieval Tool

3.2. Summary File SAS Tool

3.3. Summary File Excel Import Tool

4. User References

4.1. Detailed Tables for the 2007-2011 ACS 5-year Estimates

4.2. 2007-2011 ACS 5-year Summary Levels/Components For Detailed Tables

4.3. Sequence Number and Table Number Lookup

4.4. Table Shells List

4.5. Excel Geography File

4.7. Table Name Changes - ACS 5yr

4.8. Table Name Changes - ACS 1yr

Appendix A. Supplemental Documentation

Appendix B. Graphical Representation of ACS Summary File Organization

B.1. 2007-2011 ACSSF All In 1 Giant File (Experienced-Users-Only)

B.2. 2007-2011 ACSSF By State All Tables

B.3. 2007-2011 ACSSF By State By Sequence Table Subset

Appendix C. User Notes

C.1. Population Thresholds

C.2. Geography Restrictions

C.3. Jam Values

C.4. Rounding Rules and Margins of Error

C.5. Data Release Filtering Rules

C.6. Display of Estimates

C.7. Multiple Sequences For a Table

Tables That Are Contained in More Than One Sequence File

Appendix D. Examples

D.1. Creating a Table

D.2. Creating a Table Using SAS

Appendix E. Detailed Tables for the 2007-2011 ACS 5-year Estimates

Appendix F. ACS 5-year Summary Levels/Components for Detailed Tables

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Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey 2007-2011 Summary File: Technical Documentation.

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