Tutorials on using PUMS data in R

Hi Peter,

I admittedly haven't used it yet, but IPUMS developed the ipumsr package to help with this. It comes with import and metadata functions. It also has good documentation with links to other packages for things like survey weighting. Here is the introduction documentation: cran.r-project.org/.../ipums.html.

Hi Peter,

Sorry for the delay here. These files have been on my to-do list for a while. They're still a work in progress, but I hope are helpful. I expect I'll add a few sections to the analysis file over the next couple of weeks as well.

You can find two R examples here:
github.com/.../ACS-PUMS

Specifically, see:
180730_ACS_PUMS_Download.R - R script to download 5-year PUMS files for IL, IN, and WI 37 minutes ago
180730_ACS_PUMS_Example_Analysis.R - Initial version of example analysis in R file

If you get a chance to use them, please let me know if you find any errors.

Also, FWIW, Anthony D'amico has a trove of R files that show how to use many different Census survey products in R.
github.com/.../07-acs.Rmd

Vincent

Vincent,
I'm pretty new to R and have been using SPSS to analyze the PUMS files. However, in discovering that I need to using the replicate weights to generate my own MOE and recently learning that SPSS cannot do that, I am deciding between R or STATA. Do you know if R is able to handle replicate weights? Do you happen to have any script for that? I'm looking at determining housing cost burden by race and want to use replicate weighting method to generate my standard error and margins of error.
Many thanks for the resources above which have been helpful to me as I start using R.
Thanks,
Elise

Yes R can handle replicate weights through the 'survey' package. Once you get the survey object setup (assign replicate weight columns) it is fairly straight forward after that. Take a look at the data prep code in this GitHub repo: github.com/.../vietvet-acsstats-2016 for some ideas.

Yes R can handle replicate weights through the 'survey' package. Once you get the survey object setup (assign replicate weight columns) it is fairly straight forward after that. Take a look at the data prep code in this GitHub repo: github.com/.../vietvet-acsstats-2016 for some ideas.