Trouble accessing Census.gov? Watch this video for help. | Julie Assel, CGMS, GPC posted on the topic

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Are you having trouble accessing Census.gov? We have heard from other grant professionals that they could not access the census data in the way they were used to in the past. We wanted to put together this quick video to help everyone. Data is an important tool in every grant professional's toolbox. #Census #CensusData #Data #GrantWriting #GrantProfessionals #GrantTools #GrantManagement #HowTo

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Like many grant professionals, the 17 grant professionals at Assel Grant Services have been impacted in a variety of ways by the government shutdown, and one of the federal websites we regularly use is census.gov. This is a core resource for us and for all grant professionals. When we started to hear of challenges within our own staff, we troubleshooted the website until we could find a solution. When we realized that other grant professionals were just treating the website like it was completely inaccessible, we decided to put together this quick video to help everyone. First, Quick Facts: it's not showing, so a deeper dive into the tables is necessary, but the process is different than it's been in the past. So here is an explanation and we'll see how it behaves today. First, you'll need to type in data. census.gov. Of course, we all get to wait with the notice for the 10 seconds. And here we go. 2nd, we need to select advanced search. For some of you, you may never have done this part before, but this will get you into the tables. Now for many people, this is the point in which they said, oh, it's not working, but the reason for that is because they're not seeing the filters along the left. A workaround for this has been to select a random table to get them to appear. So let's choose a common table that many of us use: the poverty status, right? Poverty status in the last 12 months and boom, there are the filters. Don't ask me why it does it, it just does it. So the second problem people have is they look for the tables to appear along the right, which is kind of the common place that they have previously shown up. It's not happening right now. Instead you can select this download table data. And what appears is this little box in the blue. Here you select the box and you can select download. And it asks you which table would you like to download. I'm a big fan of downloading the tables anyway for my own records these days When you don't know when a website might be inaccessible, it's even more important. So here you can select the box or even multiple. Whether you want the one year or the five year subject tables or what year you would like. So for example, we can select the one year for 2024 and let's choose the five year estimates for the 2023, which as you can see is the most current. Then you click the download zip. And it will ask you where do you want to save this. Alright, once you do that, there's a series of files that will show up. Next let's talk you through what you're actually looking at, OK. So first, you're going to get a series of files, right? One of them is going to be metadata. It's just your headers, OK? The second one is going to be actually marked data dot CSV. Reminder. If you decide you're going to manipulate this in any way, these are CSV files, and you will need to save them as Excel files to keep any formatting that you choose to use. OK. So let's show you what this looks like. So the first row is basically the name of the table that we chose, S1701. The 2nd row is actually the headers that you would normally see in the table. The 3rd row is the data. We still have the data. It isn't pretty, but it is the data. We have not lost access to census data that all grant professionals value so much in putting together a competitive proposal for their funders. I hope this helps and I wish you all the best as you write your grant proposals. Thanks everyone.

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