Hi all
I hope everyone is healthy.
If we want to combine categories within a table, what’s the most appropriate way to calculate margin of error or coefficient of variation?
So for example, if we want to look at children in poverty, by race/ethnicity…
I am not sure you can get landlords from the ACS data. The ACS data are based on residents- where people live and not by what they do or own. So to get landlords from ACS it would need to be listed as their occupation and even then most landlords probably…
Hi Anna Carlson! There are a couple of ways to approach this.
For tricks on how to search, if you ask 10 people you'll get 10 different answers on their strategy. My best suggestion is to start with Census Bureau recorded trainings like this one: https…
Hi Gene,
Yes, pages 72 & 73 of the Subject Definitions doc explain all the gory details (which is pretty much why it's my favorite Census Documentation on all of census.gov).
Here's an excerpt:
Medicaid comes from 16(d) on the Questionnai…
I'm thinking about requesting a custom tabulation for a possible project on homelessness. For this project I will need a tabulation with a detailed group quarters category. . The 2010 Decennial Census SF-1 has such a tabulation: PCT 21 GROUP QUARTERS…
We are please to announce that both the 2010 ACS 5-Year Selected Population and American Indian & Alaska Native Tables, as well as the 2015 ACS 5-Year Selected Population and American Indian & Alaska Native Tables have been migrated into data…
Do you have any recommended practices for rounding and significant digits you could share?
For regional planning, we often have report 1-year ACS values that have a fair amount of uncertainty. Here's an example of this type of reporting: https://www…
2018-2022 ACS 5-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2018-2022 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files.
The ACS 5-year PUMS files show the full range of population…
Working in RStudio, I am using the censusapi package to access Population Estimates data. Specifically, I am trying to access data on race/ethnicity from 2010-2017 using the Vintage 2017 Population Estimates.
Running this code:
POP_COUNTY10 <-getCensus…
Dear Steve,
To get "down in the weeds" a little here are the methods for the between decennial census county estimates. These numbers are used to adjust the ACS survey county estimates. For the complete calculation for the nation, each county…