I have geospacially clipped census blocks into a new geography to estimate the population for the new area (new area/old area * population estimate).
Is there a method to calculate the new margin of error for these new estimates?
Hi!
To calculate margins of error for derrived estimates (such as when you group across geographies) see Chapter 8 of the Handbook
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/acs…
I don't think the handbook--by this omission--is intentionally trying to comment on the appropriateness of working with partial geographies. More to the point, the statistical principles guiding how to…
ACS does not report block-level estimates or MOEs.