Depending on the size of your county/counties of interest, PUMS would work. Larger counties tend to have clear PUMA-to-County crosswalks. Smaller counties may have PUMAs that overlap with adjacent counties. Geocorr can produce the necessary crosswalk…
If you’re using R, tidycensus has tools to download and analyze PUMS data walker-data.com/.../pums-data.html
I thought this was an interesting question, so I wrote a little R code to pull PUMS via tidycensus and create these estimates. If you are not familiar, this is a good walk-through of how to use tidycensus for PUMS data. If you also want standard errors…
You need to use a PUMS file The vehicle question (household section of the ACS survey form) is #12 How many automobiles, vans, and trucks of one-ton capacity or less are kept at home for use by members of this household? Split the PUMS data by using None…
Thank you for the suggestion, Beth. I have not before used the PUMS files, so that will be a new dataset for me to try!
This a little advertisement for the Small Area Estimation package that is in my earlier post.
The variable Asian male & white female couples can be constructed using PUMS data so the SAE package will produce tract level data with this variable.
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If you used the ACS PUMS data you could create a similar result to the CHAS data. You'd just create a new variable that only populates once if any of the four conditions were met.
Can I use PUMS to get data by county by race/ethnicity? Single parent households with children, -by county- by race/ethnicity ?
Additional comment. If you want people living alone with/without a phone you will need to use the PUMS (microdata) file. PUMS files don't go down to the county level only to the PUMA level (public use microdata area) These have to be at least 100,000…
Brittany, use PUMS data with the three Dane County PUMAS for geo from 2017-21 ACS. You'll find Hmong in variable RAC2P- code 46. I just ran this recently, so I know it's available. Please contact me if you need help doing this. eric