Hi,
i was looking to see if any on ehad recommendation of what varaibles i can start looking at to calculate 2 measures
a) Rent Burden
b) Utility Burden
whati am trying to achieve is estimnate economic hardships
any suggestions would be greatly helpful
Hi Natasha,
I agree with David, you should consider using the Microdata (PUMS) for this. The variable's name is "GRPIP".You can also try another approach -- please refer to my other post here:
https://acsdatacommunity.prb.org/discussion-forum/f/forum/1401/need-help-to-recreate-a-chart-from-harvard-university-on-cost-burdened-ratio/3780#3780
Hope this helps!
-QT
Another comment -- if you look back a couple of pages you will find my post on a Small Area Estimation computer program that I wrote. It is still a "work in progress" I'm still working on and testing the replicate weight code. The current github version gets synthetic microdata for census tracts starting with PUMS data and "B" "S" or "DP" tables at the tract level. Once you have the synthetic tract level data you can create tables for any of the PUMS PUMA variables. You can aggregate the tract data to get tables for counties, cities/towns (places county subdivisions).
Dave
Thank you