"A timely, one-of-a-kind reference volume. It offers teachers, analysts, and applied demographers a wealth of practical advice and useful illustrations."
Peter A. Morrison, RAND CORPORATION "A thoughtful, comprehensive, and well-organized handbook for novice and practitioner alike, with thorough discussions on Census methodology, the different Census data products, Census data items and the linkages among them, and how to integrate it ... Read moreall into an accessible and meaningful local portrait."
PAUL FARMER, AICP, Deputy Planning Director, City of Pittsburgh "Dowell Myers has succeeded in providing local community researchers with a thorough, yet eminently practical, handbook for analyzing social change using that mother lode of small-area data neggest: the decennial Census of Population and Housing."
PAUL R. VOSS, Director, Applied Population Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison Show Less