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Table Data - Mean Commuting Time for Workers (5-year estimate) in Story County, IA

Title Mean Commuting Time for Workers (5-year estimate) in Story County, IA
Series ID B080ACS019169
Source U.S. Census Bureau
Release Mean Commute Time (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Minutes
Date Range 2009-01-01 to 2022-01-01
Last Updated 2023-12-07 11:25 AM CST
Notes Mean commuting time is calculated by dividing the aggregate travel time to work for all workers (in minutes) by the total number of workers, 16-years old and older, who commute (ACS 5-year variables B08013_001E from table B08013 and B08012_001E from table B08012, respectively).

Multiyear estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) are "period" estimates derived from a data sample collected over a period of time, as opposed to "point-in-time" estimates such as those from past decennial censuses. ACS 5-year estimate includes data collected over a 60-month period. The date of the data is the end of the 5-year period. For example, a value dated 2014 represents data from 2010 to 2014. However, they do not describe any specific day, month, or year within that time period.

Multiyear estimates require some considerations that single-year estimates do not. For example, multiyear estimates released in consecutive years consist mostly of overlapping years and shared data. The 2010–2014 ACS 5-year estimates share sample data from 2011 through 2014 with the 2011–2015 ACS 5-year estimates. Because of this overlap, users should use extreme caution in making comparisons with consecutive years of multiyear estimates.

Please see "Section 3: Understanding and Using ACS Single-Year and Multiyear Estimates" on publication page 13 (file page 19) of the 2018 ACS General Handbook for a more thorough clarification.
DATE VALUE
2009-01-01 16.643397260273970
2010-01-01 17.665996401735633
2011-01-01 17.595024408962033
2012-01-01 17.665669361512510
2013-01-01 17.811593580130204
2014-01-01 17.925302754259995
2015-01-01 17.599463331150034
2016-01-01 17.520106956375272
2017-01-01 17.728867657316790
2018-01-01 17.927206913146275
2019-01-01 18.000250542842828
2020-01-01 18.201560216625120
2021-01-01 18.376548799611280
2022-01-01 17.909055535139107

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