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  • RE: Casting ZIP code data on to ACS Census Block Group

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    There are many ways to adjust zcta data "down to" blockgroups.  This simplest way to do this is to scale by the factor  block group population/ zcta population.  However you can do much better than this.  You can build a model (multiway tabulation…

    • 4 months ago
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  • RE: Which table/dataset do I need to know which city/place has the more Asian male & white female couples (greater number/a higher proportion)?

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    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.

    You…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2023 ACS 1-year Estimates

    Matt Schroeder
    Matt Schroeder

    Thanks! The new race iterations of table B25140 (housing costs as % of household income) are wonderful to have in the summary file. Disaggregated data on housing cost burden is one of the most common requests we get, but we've had to rely on the PUMS…

    • 9 months ago
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  • RE: grandparents responsible for grandchildren data in ACS

    K. Gwendolyn Gallagher
    K. Gwendolyn Gallagher

    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!

    • over 3 years ago
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  • RE: Can anyone direct me to the ACS county-level data about persons living alone and (household or persons') phone ownership?

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    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…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • RE: CHAS vs ACS for housing problems

    Douglas White
    Douglas White

    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. 

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: Measuring Trends Children in Households

    Matt Herman
    Matt Herman

    If you’re using R, tidycensus has tools to download and analyze PUMS data walker-data.com/.../pums-data.html

    • over 3 years ago
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  • RE: Estimating percentiles from range data other than the median/50th percentile

    Val K
    Val K

    Thank you for your response! This is very helpful perspective.

    I should have mentioned, despite using this formula found in the PUMS accuracy document, I am studying a few aggregated census tracts in my city.  Consequently, my data is indeed limited to…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: Tenure by income by race by county

    Chuck Purvis
    Chuck Purvis

    Juan:

    Diana's recommendations are totally spot-on / correct. A county level tabulation on households by owner/renter tenure by race/ethnicity of householder by household income level, is just not (directly) available from the ACS.

    I would recommend…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • RE: U.S. Census Bureau Releases New American Community Survey Statistics for Detailed Race, Hispanic Origin, Ancestry, and Tribal Population Groups

    Eric Grosso
    Eric Grosso

    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

    • over 2 years ago
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