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Adjusting Income in ACS

Gustavo Rotondaro
over 8 years ago
Hello, I'm working on adjusting median household and family income at different levels of geographies using ACS 1-year and 5-years estimates. For example, I want to adjust 2005 ACS 1-year median family income estimates to 2014 dollars. I can do that using the ACS Handbook guide but how do I deal with the margin of error for the new 2005 adjusted estimate?

Thanks in advance!
Gustavo.
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  • over 8 years ago
    The units for the estimate and for the margin of error are the same. For median income, I THINK (please correct this info if it is wrong) that the units are in inflation-adjusted dollars for the ending year of the ACS time period - for example, the 2005-2009 median incomes are in 2009 inflation-adjusted dollars.

    Any adjustment to 2014 dollars that is made for the median income estimates should also be applied to the margins of error.
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  • over 8 years ago
    The units for the estimate and for the margin of error are the same. For median income, I THINK (please correct this info if it is wrong) that the units are in inflation-adjusted dollars for the ending year of the ACS time period - for example, the 2005-2009 median incomes are in 2009 inflation-adjusted dollars.

    Any adjustment to 2014 dollars that is made for the median income estimates should also be applied to the margins of error.
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