The new 2020 population numbers are out and I am seeing different numbers/percentages from news articles than what I have from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2010-2020/metro/totals/ . To be on the safe side do I compare CENSUS2010POP to POPESTIMATE042020 or POPESTIMATE2020 to get the correct percentage growth?
Thanks in advance.
Robin
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MCDC also has the data, although not necessarily "user-friendly".
mcdc.missouri.edu/.../uexplore
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I think those are estimates and the new numbers are in the PL94 release https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/about/rdo/summary-files.html
which can be compared to pl94 data from 2010 — i downloaded from NHGIS https://www.nhgis.org
That explains it - thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I am not proficient in PUMS (I need to be). Can I get the 2020 census population via excel or csv format?
They say more user-friendly files are due in early September -- you can use these, they're not microdata, just text files that need to be joined together and coded field names need to be interpreted, there's SAS and R code to do that in the Census page, but I like this R library from somebody at Harvard github.com/.../PL94171
Thank you so much! You've been a huge help to me.