Talk:Kansas statistical areas

Population updates

Population data from the United States Census Bureau may be updated either:

(1) Every ten years with data from the decennial United States Census, or

(2) Annually with data from the decennial United States Census and annual population estimates from the United States Census Bureau.

The following table shows when population data is available:

United States Census Bureau Population Data

Source:	Decennial Census	Population Estimates
Date:	April 1 of years divisible by ten	July 1 of years not divisible by ten
Region:	date population data available
nation	December	December 1
state
statistical area	February-March of next year	April 1 of next year
county
places		June 1 of next year

Please contact me if you have any questions. Yours aye,  Buaidh  21:32, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Table numbers and colors

@Buaidh: What do the different colors in the table mean? Why do some cells (e.g. on the rows for Kansas City and Joplin) have more than one number? -- Beland (talk) 17:00, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Please see Note 3. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk e-mail 22:43, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Ah, thank you! I missed that because numbered footnotes are supposed to be citations to sources. This colorization doesn't comply with MOS:COLOR, because there's no way for color-blind readers to get the intended information. I'll tweak the table so the information is clear to everyone. -- Beland (talk) 00:41, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

@Buaidh: That's done, but I notice that other state articles on the same topic have the same problems. Are these tables generated automatically from a template, or would it be useful to fix them all manually? -- Beland (talk) 01:14, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

These tables are currently generated manually. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk e-mail 20:00, 16 May 2024 (UTC)