fagan2888 / population-estimates-race-2018

An analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau's 2018 population estimates by demographic characteristics

Baltimore area 2018 population by demographic characteristics analysis

The data

The following raw data files were downloaded from the U.S. Census Bureau and pre-proccessed in "processing" notebook 01_processing.ipynb prior to analysis:

For the 2010-18 period (all counties downloaded)

• Vintage 2018 county population estimates by demographic characteristics

For the 2000-10 period (only Maryland counties downloaded)

• County Intercensal Datasets: 2000-2010

For the 1990-99 period (all counties downloaded)

• State and County Intercensal Datasets: 1990-2000

Baltimore Sun analysis

By Christine Zhang

The Baltimore Sun conducted an analysis of county-level population estimates by age, sex and race/ethnicity analysis for a story published June 19, 2019 titled "Baltimore's white population swells with millennials, resembling D.C., Brooklyn".

The Sun's findings and analysis are available in the "analysis" notebook in this repository: 02_analysis.ipynb. The pre-processing code is in the "processing" notebook in this repository: 01_processing.ipynb.

The raw datasets are saved in the input folder. The cleaned files are saved in the output folder. Note that these files are compressed as input/inputdata.zip and output/outputdata.zip and will need to be unzipped prior to analysis.

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Community Contributions

There are many angles to explore with this data, beyond just the ones we looked into for our story.

Have a question or something to contribute? Send us a pull request or contact us on Twitter @baltsundata or via email.

You can also fork a copy of this repo to your own account.

Licensing

All code in this repository is available under the MIT License. The data files are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.