Hello, I was expecting to be able to get to the county level using the 5Yr PUMS data, but found it is still only by PUMAs. Yes, I can convert the PUMAs to counties, but some counties are too small and are grouped. The tables don't work for me as I need a different poverty level than just "Below Poverty Level"
I'm looking to get poverty levels of 165% FPL, 185%FPL, and 200% FPL by race and a few other variables
Any ideas?
Glenn is correct. NHGIS and Social Explorer redistribute the published ACS Detailed Tables (i.e., Summary File) data. I don't know of published ACS tables that cross-tabulate poverty ratio by race. In…
Jonathan Schroeder said:this approach makes the assumption that there is no variation in poverty/race correspondences among counties within a PUMA.
Right, this is a very simple method for estimation. I…
Social Explorer has those data up, as does the NHGIS. What tables do you want (by number) and what are you using to get the data. There are many cases where PUMAs span more than one county, and where counties have more than one PUMA.
Thank you, Andrew, for your response. Yes, PUMAs span, so I have to combine more than I really want to.
For the Census data, I use the PUMS data with SAS. I also use MDAT
I can look at IPUMS, but wouldn't that have the same issue? I have not looked closely at NHGIS yet