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  • RE: Detailed Language Breakdown

    Beth Jarosz
    Beth Jarosz

    The public use microdata has a much more comprehensive list of languages available. You can find the full list of languages in the "PUMS Code Lists" document here: www.census.gov/.../documentation.html

    • 5 months ago
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  • RE: County-level data from ACS 1-Year Estimates Public Use Microdata Sample

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    As a general matter you can't get county level estimates from PUMS data.  The only geography for PUMS data is the PUMA. In the case where a county is a "Union" of several PUMAs you can "stack" PUMS data for the corresponding PUMAs.…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: ACS data 2019 and 2020

    Eric Grosso
    Eric Grosso

    May I ask source of this PUMS?  These are the row level data that you've recoded, correct?  You have not aggregated these, right? 

    • 6 months ago
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  • RE: Small Area Estimation R Package

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    I just posted a 0.7 updated windows installer Wed 20 Dec 2023 at about 11:30 am

    The package works with 2022 ACS marginal 5 year tables and 2022 1 year PUMS data.  Watch out - the 2022 1 year PUMS data uses the 2022 PUMA FIPS codes which are different from…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: ACS Summary Tables Compared to Microdata

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Dear Jill,

    You need to use PUMS variables ESR and COW in combination as follows:

    Note the universe for S2408 is the Employed Civilian population 16 years old and over

    # ESR: Employment status recode
    # b [0].N/A (less than 16 years old)
    # 1 .Civilian employed…

    • 9 months ago
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  • RE: Confusion about generating estimates for *households* and not *individuals* in MDAT

    Eric Grosso
    Eric Grosso

    Perhaps query this in iPUMS or by merging the housing and person records PUMS SAS files?  I like MDAT, and maybe you can yield your desired results in MDAT by tweaking your setup, but I find the other PUMS sources more flexible.  

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: create civilian non-institutionalized sample from Census beta analysis tool

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Did you check out the PUMS TYPEHUGQ variable ?  (TYPE 2019 and earlier).  You can merge on SERIALNO with the PUMS "person" dataset.

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: Pre-made table showing migrant country of origin (MIGSP) for a specific destination state?

    Beth Jarosz
    Beth Jarosz

    You can get the total population who moved from outside of the U.S. from table B07204 but I can't think of any pre-tabulated disaggregation by origin--PUMS is the best option. Would pooling 3 years of PUMS data work?

    Also, if you're willing to share…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: 5-Yr PUMA Geography

    Meghan Donahue
    Meghan Donahue

    I haven't used SAS in years and years so I don't recall how transferrable this resource is.... These two links were extremely helpful with using pums data in R.

    https://walker-data.com/census-r/introduction-to-census-microdata.html

    https://walker…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • Small Area Estimation ACS R Package Windows and Linux installers

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Dear All,

    I have posted the open source Poverty Assessment Toolkit R package PAT_0.7.zip on the GitHub open source website:

    https://github.com/ddorer44/PovertyAssessment

    Updated to 0.7 12-18-23

    https://github.com/ddorer44/PovertyAssessment/blob/main/PAT_0…

    • over 1 year ago
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