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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…

    • 6 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: 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 3 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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  • 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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  • 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: 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…

    • 11 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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