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  • RE: Housing Cost Burden at County Level by Race/Ethnicity

    Matt Schroeder
    Matt Schroeder

    You're correct: the ACS summary files do not have this information, so the PUMS is your best bet. IPUMS-USA has county codes, but if a county you're examining can't be identified in the PUMS data, you can use the CHAS data, a special tabulation of ACS…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: ACS special tabulations

    Mara Kaminowitz
    Mara Kaminowitz

    Can you use PUMS?

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: cost of utilities

    Douglas White
    Douglas White

    If you can use PUMS data, they have cost of utilities.

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: Education Attainment for everyone, not just those over 25

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    PUMS variable SCHL

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: Group quarters availability by block group for ACS 2023 5Y

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    I haven't used the variance replicate tables but I use replicate weights for PUMS data all the time.  I think that all you do is take the 80 x 2 tables (2 tables for each replicate) take the difference

       difference i = total population table i - in…

    • 4 months ago
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  • RE: Number of households or families with children by age of children and number of workers or employment status

    Matt Herman
    Matt Herman

    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…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: Ed Attainment by custom age range, sex, race/ethnicity by county

    Beth Jarosz
    Beth Jarosz

    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…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: Age Distribution of Non-Hispanic African American/Black

    Li Jiao
    Li Jiao

    Thank you! Beth. I will check PUMS. 

    • over 3 years ago
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  • RE: Income based on vehicle ownership?

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    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…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • Request for support confirming a calculation performed via the ACS microdata access tool

    Ofer Schechner
    Ofer Schechner

    Hi Everyone!

    My goal is to find the 2019 mean travel time to work in the USA filtered for ages 20-64. I created a custom table employing the microdata access tool. If anyone could kindly review and confirm the validity of my calculations, it would greatly…

    • over 1 year ago
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