• 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: 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…

  • 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.

  • RE: children in poverty by race

    Dear Gene,

    Many ACS "B" tables have separate tables broken out by race (e.g. age x sex). There are age x sex tables for each race , "Black","White","Asian" etc. (and Hispanic ethnicity). Your need to write a computer program to "stack" the tables for…

  • 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: How to find neighborhood demographic info

    It's possible tracts will be good enough if they are not greatly changed in that time. If you want maximum precision, you can use mapping to overlay blocks from that tract onto a street map and pick an exact boundary you think of as a neighborhood, and…

  • RE: Mapping 5 Year Data

    Thanks, all!

    I'm reviewing the materials you passed along.

    Sarah, I am interested in how you marked the data as excessive, and your examination of race/ethnicity in general. I was hoping to compare differences in poverty levels among race/ethnicity…

  • Population aggregates at CBG and CT not matching (for ACS and Decennial Year as well)

    Hi,

    I'm using population estimates at census tracts and census block group level for race and ethnicity. Despite coming from the same tables, why don't the aggregate totals not match at census tract and census block group level? I have tried this with…

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