Document Type
Dissertation - Open Access
Award Date
2018
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department / School
Sociology and Rural Studies
First Advisor
Weiwei Zhang
Abstract
Applied demography employs population studies in the effort to answer real world questions and provide insights for the problems that business and civic leaders face on an ongoing basis. To answer these questions the applied demographer sometimes performs primary research, but more often they attempt to leverage and extend the use of publicly available data to answer the questions presented in an efficient and timeconstrained manner. The work described here looks at a problem presented by the Michigan Department of Education and the solution presented by the Michigan State Demographer. The problem required estimates for a single-year age group at a nonstandard poverty level. These data are not published by the U.S. Census Bureau, but a novel solution was developed to serve an intermediate need until a custom tabulation of Census data could be delivered. With the delivery of a custom tabulation of Census data, there was a unique opportunity to test the results of the interpolation against what would be a gold standard dataset. The results reveal that the process of interpolating estimates devised as a solution could produce estimates that could be useful for a variety of purposes.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Demography -- Statistical methods.
Population research.
School districts -- Michigan -- Statistics.
Michigan -- Social conditions -- Statistics.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-137)
Format
application/pdf
Number of Pages
143
Publisher
South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Guthrie, Eric A., "Extending the Utility of Public Use Microdata" (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2439.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/2439
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