Table B19049 in 2015 5 YR ACS Data Missing Values for Florida

Douglas White over 7 years ago

Trying to reach out for some help. Table B19049 MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS (IN 2015 INFLATION-ADJUSTED DOLLARS) BY AGE OF HOUSEHOLDER in the 2015 5YR data only has values for 60 of the 67 counties in Florida. It also appears that it is missing those values for sub-county geographies (places, tracts, etc.) for those 7 counites as well. I have tried to get a hold of someone at Census for help on this issue, but have had no luck. 2014 5 YR dtaa has all counties, and this is the only table that seems to have this problem.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Janice Valdisera over 7 years ago

Between 2014 and 2015 the Census Bureau began suppressing medians when the margins of error associated with the medians was larger than the median itself. For example, the 2014 median household income for Calhoun County, Florida was $9,426 with a margin of error of (+-)$25,033. The 90-percent confidence interval around that median was (-$15,607, +$34,459). That median is statistically unreliable. Had this situation occurred in 2015, Table B19049 for Calhoun County, and other median tables like it, would have been suppressed due to data quality issues. Note that this suppression rule applies only to medians. Counts such as those shown in B19037, aggregates, means and per capita are not suppressed.
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