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Census Bureau researchers are developing new tools that make data more accessible and understandable. They also create new data products from existing data collections. This ongoing work extends the value of existing data and reduces the need for new surveys while at the same time protecting confidentiality.

Demographic - People and Households

• Small Area Health Insurance Estimates Interactive Map Tool
  An interactive public data tool that shows maps of health insurance coverage rates for counties and states
• Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates Interactive Map Tool
  An interactive public data tool that shows maps of poverty rates or median household income for school districts, counties, and states
• Synthetic Survey of Income and Program Participation
  Beta version of synthetic microdata on individuals
• 2012 Planning Database
  Block-group level housing, demographic, and socioeconomic variables associated with mail response and undercount

Economic - Businesses

• Business Dynamics Statistics
  Tabulations on establishments, firms, and employment with unique information on firm age and firm size
• NBER-CES Manufacturing Industry Database
  Annual industry-level data on output, employment, payroll and other input costs, investment, capital stocks, total factor productivity and various industry-specific price indexes
• Synthetic Longitudinal Business Database
  Beta version of synthetic microdata on all U.S. establishments

Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics - Workforce

• Industry Focus
  Determines the top industries for local areas and local workers: focus on a particular industry to see how it ranks among top industries, and see the characteristics of those who work in that industry
• OnTheMap
  An online web-based mapping and reporting tool that shows concentrations of employment or residences as well as spatial relationships between home and work
• OnTheMap for Emergency Management
  A national public data tool that provides unique details on the workforce for areas affected by emergency events, in real time
• Quarterly Workforce Indicators
  A set of economic indicators that can be queried by different levels of geography as well as by detailed industry, gender, and age of workers

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