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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: 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.

    • 27 days ago
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  • RE: missing variables

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Dear Lorna

    For School Enrollment you might look at the PUMS variable SCHG "Grade level Attending"

    Dave

    • 4 months 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…

    • 11 months ago
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  • RE: Total population differences between table for same census tracts

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Just to add a note about PUMS data.  With the PUMS data the individual disability variables like DEYE are defined for the total population.  If you want to "recreate" the detail tables on data.census.gov from PUMS data you need to look at the MIL PUMS variable…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: Population Data Question

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    You need to use PUMS data which has 1 year age intervals.  You can try to use small area estimation to get numbers for census tracts.

    • 3 months ago
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  • RE: 2022 Population Decrease in 2018-2022 5-Year?

    Eric Grosso
    Eric Grosso

    Why not use the 2018-2022 PUMS instead of those single-year sources?

    • 8 months ago
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  • RE: Birth / Marriage Rate calculations from ACS data. Possible?

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Dear Steve,

    You probably will not be able to get the data you need from standard (B S D C) ACS tables at the tract level. One way to deal with the situation is to use PUMS data.  With the PUMS data you will the age of children in single year increments…

    • 4 months ago
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  • Median year structure built using micro data

    harik
    harik

    Hello,

    I am trying to estimate the age of occupied housing using micro data (PUMS 1-year), something similar to ACS summary table B25035.

    I found the "yrblt" variable in PUMS for "when structure first built." However, it is not what I was expecting. For…

    • 5 months ago
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  • RE: Fertility Data cdc vs acs

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    A couple of comments.  The PUMS query FER variable is the ACS checkoff "have you given birth within the last 12 months."  So it needs the "twins" correction.  I emailed the people at the NCHS.  There is a recent publication with fertility…

    • 1 month ago
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