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  • Webinar on ACS PUMS Dual Vintage Variables--Thur, March 13th

    Gretchen Gooding
    Gretchen Gooding
    Description: Advanced users learn about the American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) and how to work with dual vintages of variables included in the ACS PUMS files. This presentation will give a background of the ACS PUMS files…
    • over 11 years ago
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  • Delays in PUMS release for 2012 ACS files

    Beth Jarosz
    Beth Jarosz
    According to today's press release from the Census Bureau:
    "The Public Use Microdata Sample files for the 2012 American Community Survey one-year statistics will be released on Dec. 17, (original release date was Oct. 24); the files for the three-year…
    • over 11 years ago
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  • American Community Survey (ACS) Releases New Videos on Using ACS PUMS with DataFerrett

    Gretchen Gooding
    Gretchen Gooding
    The U.S. Census Bureau released two videos about creating custom tables using the American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files and DataFerrett. The ACS PUMS files are a set of untabulated records about individual people and housing…
    • over 11 years ago
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  • RE: full time employment percentages for jobs in the national economy

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Dear Adolph,

    You might look at the PUMS (public use microdata) codebook to see what "raw" variables are available for the ACS.  The tables on data.census.gov come from the PUMS data, except the PUMS data is a sample from the "raw" ACS responses…

    • 15 days ago
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  • RE: Labor force and population for the years 2019-2023

    Mark Mather
    Mark Mather

    Hello, it sounds like you're using the ACS-5-year PUMS data to produce 1-year estimates. The 5-year PUMS data are designed to produce estimates over a 60-month period, not for individual years, which is why the weighted frequencies for each year are…

    • 1 month ago
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  • RE: Will ACS Data Products be Delayed This Year?

    jnigrine
    jnigrine

    Also, the "August Events and Updates" email just came out Tuesday, 8/5 with the unchanged timeline:

    2024 ACS Release Schedule

    • 2024 ACS 1-year Estimates: September 11, 2025
    • 2024 ACS 1-year PUMS and Supplemental Estimates: October 16, 2025
    • 2020…
    • 29 days ago
    • Discussion Forum
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  • RE: PUMA populations, 100,000 or 65,000?

    Connie Citro
    Connie Citro

    Hi - The 65,000 does not play into PUMS; it relates only to tables. PUMS' smallest units are PUMAs.

    • 3 months ago
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  • RE: Alternatives to LEHD/LODES Data

    Beth Jarosz
    Beth Jarosz

    Hi Garth -

    The ACS PUMS has a Place of Work PUMA code (POWPUMA) that identifies work location, but the geographic specificity is far less granular than LEHD/LODES. If by "finer detail" you mean worker characteristic detail, PUMS may be helpful.…

    • 6 days ago
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  • RE: 5-Yr PUMA Geography

    Jonathan Schroeder
    Jonathan Schroeder

    Charles,

    Since my original post here, the Census Bureau has done something very much like what you suggest. Their first release of the 2019-2023 5-year PUMS identified 2020 PUMAs for all respondents. Later, they released a new version of the 2018-2022…

    • 11 days ago
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  • RE: Are the MOEs for two mutually exclusive & completely exhaustive percentages equal?

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Here is the documentation for the PUMS replicate weights:

    https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2020/acs/acs_pums_handbook_2020_ch05.pdf

    The weighted estimates calculated using the Public
    Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files are…

    • over 1 year ago
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