I'm trying to get detailed data on languages spoken at home to do an LEP study. I'm able to get the data by PUMA; however, my city is lumped in with two other cities, with no way to segregate them.
Is there some other way to do this? We're on the hook for non-English language support but can't get granular-enough data to figure out which languages we have to service. Thanks in advance.
For city (sumlevel 160) and tracts (sum level 140), have you looked at table C16001 ? There're nine non-English languages listed
Grid View: Table C16001 - Census ReporterWhy just nine languages?
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Hi,
ACS Table B16002 provides detailed language data at the household level.
Data is available for municipalities and Census Tracts. You may need to isolate the tracts in your city and then aggregate them…
Perhaps whoever wrote the law should have checked what's actually available in the ACS before the law was passed.
I get difficult-to-answer questions like this a lot.
If you're able to get the data by PUMA, you could do an allocation to the place level using Geocorr.
https://mcdc.missouri.edu/applications/geocorr.html
Geocorr is upset with me, but I'll keep trying.
I wonder: how accurate will the results be? I'd thought about using a population-based adjustment, but that assumes the incidence of languages is uniform across the three cities in the PUMA. I know that isn't the case.