Using American Community Survey to Understand Your Community

S T E P 1 : S E A R CH F O R YOU R K E YWO R D .

We will begin our search for data at the data.census.gov portal. This portal gives you the ability to search across the Census Bureau’s datasets, including ACS data. Because we are interested in finding areas in your county where school-aged children and youth may not be able to participate in remote education, we will use the simple search bar displayed in the center of the page to search for a keyword for relevant clues. For this example, let’s use “computer.” We can type the keyword into the search bar and click “SEARCH,” as Figure 2 shows.

Figure 2: Using the search bar.

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