Fun With IPUMS

Ipums.org lets you play with Census data, which is pretty powerful for all sorts of research topics.

It also has this nice online analysis tool that lets you generate charts on the fly.

For example, let's say you want to look at homeownership rate for Asian/Pacific Islanders in the San Francisco Metro Area, using the tool above, you can get a graph like this:


How to get the chart above:

column=YEAR
row=OWNERSHP
filter=METAREA(7360-7365),RELATE(0101), RACE(650-651)