• RE: Quick Census Data Question

    So many people have been asking me about it that I've made a 2020 block population file for the whole USA. In the interests of keeping the file sizes reasonable, these include population and HU totals only (not race / ethnicity), and only blocks (sumlevel…

  • RE: ETA for Decennial Data, by State, on Census.gov

    I heard at the PL94 press conference that there was some plan to release, in some form, at some time, the text responses used for race and ethnicity -- would that be part of this neo-SF1 set? 

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases New American Community Survey Statistics for Detailed Race, Hispanic Origin, Ancestry, and Tribal Population Groups

    We are pleased to announce the release of new American Community Survey (ACS) estimates for detailed race, Hispanic origin, ancestry, and tribal population groups. These statistics, available from the 2017-2021 ACS 5-year Selected Population Tables (SPT…

  • RE: Race variables in 2020 1-year PUMS with experimental data

    Hi, the big difference in the race estimates are likely due to the changes to the race and ethnicity questions in the 2020 ACS rather than the experimental weights. See https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/user-notes/2021-03.…

  • RE: CHAS vs ACS for housing problems

    Thanks for your reply Paul! Glad to have you as a resource.

    I'm wondering if aggregating MOEs across both geography and groups is a valid way to calculate the CIs for US estimates by race? So combining all states, all income levels, and owner+renter…

  • RE: Sequence and table number lookup SAS file for 2019 1-year

    The Census Bureau has reissued a corrected SAS-format Sequence Number/Table Number Lookup File. It now has the same variable names as previous years and corrected the Table IDs for tables by race/ethnicity and for Puerto Rico. In the previous version the…

  • GQ Population in non-household ACS Measures?

    I have a question that should have a very straightforward answer but I cannot find any Census documentation that provides a clear answer.

    For ACS measures at the town level, are Group Quarter (GQ) persons (Particularly, those in prisons) included in…

  • Mode choices on ACS 2018

    I am looking for any research that has evaluated the mode choices on the ACS 2018 5-year file, especially as it concerns race-ethnicity and language.

    I have conducted various mixed mode studies in past years but have not observed much research on these…

  • Many NULL or missing values for Block Group level disability and senior related data

    I am involved with a project where we are running calculations from the ACS data at a block-group level. When I obtain rows which match to the block groups we are analyzing, we get NULL values for disability and senior citizen age related variables. None…

  • RE: Estimating Rental Burden (GRAPI) by Race of Householder

    I know this is not a direct reply to your question but have you considered using the CHAS data set available from HUD:

    www.huduser.gov/.../cp.html

    The CHAS data provides information on housing cost burden, including by race and ethnicity.