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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…