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  • Homelessness 2020 Census

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    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…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • Reporting Significant Digits and Rounding of Estimates

    Ennazus
    Ennazus

    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…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2018-2022 ACS 5-Year PUMS Files and Variance Replicate Estimate Tables, and Additional ACS Selected Population Tables and American Indian and Alaska Native Tables

    Mary Ana McKay
    Mary Ana McKay

    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…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • Query Error

    Amanda Lee
    Amanda Lee

    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…

    • over 6 years ago
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  • RE: Workflows for combining ACS geographies

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    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…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: Total population and Total Housing Unit Population using ACS PUMS in R

    Chuck Purvis
    Chuck Purvis

    Rafaelg: you have various options. You are loading the TIDYCENSUS package in your script, but not using it in the remainder of your example. The TIDYCENSUS package was updated (spring 2021) to have a "get_pums" function. Full documentation and video lectures…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • household costs as percent of household income

    Gene Shackman
    Gene Shackman

    Hi all

     

    I’m looking for the following: Percentage of Households With Monthly Housing Costs at Least 30% of Total Household Income by Race and Ethnicity and Ownership, for New York State

     

    That is, I’m looking for data for home owners and for renters…

    • over 7 years ago
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  • Statistical significance using PUMS data

    Bill Byrnes
    Bill Byrnes

    I've been having some trouble finding a direct answer to this question, so I thought I'd toss it in here!  I have used PUMS data to calculate rates of poverty for children by race and ethnicity in Illinois.  The results I got are here (margins of…

    • over 4 years ago
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  • Median annual earnings

    Shubham Kumar
    Shubham Kumar

    Hi everyone,

    I am new to PUMS. I am trying to estimate the gender wage gap by median annual earnings of men and women in Pennsylvania. I am using 2017 1-year estimates. I am calculating WAGP*(ADJINC/1000000). I have made a table of RAC1P variable(race…

    • over 6 years ago
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  • RE: ACS population substantially higher than decennial census

    Beth Jarosz
    Beth Jarosz

    Hello Jon -

    That's an excellent question. ACS data are benchmarked to the Census Bureau's population estimates for a given year, and those estimates are benchmarked to the most recent census... so the last year of a decade can often differ quite a bit…

    • over 3 years ago
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