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  • PUMS and Area Median Income (AMI)

    harik
    harik

    I am currently working on a project to estimate the number of (renter) households by AMI ranges (such as 80, 50 and 30% of AMI) using micro data (PUMs). How can I add AMI to the PUMs data file to analyze them together? The geography in PUMs is PUMA (not…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • PUMS bookmark - troubleshoot

    AG
    AG

    Hello - 

    Might anyone know why a PUMS bookmark, created on the beta site, wouldn't function as expected?  My first use of PUMS worked well - I can still access my analysis using the bookmark.

    Today I've created another table but the bookmark just defaults…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • Income-To-Poverty Ratio (PUMS) where does it comes from?

    marcos
    marcos

    Hi,

    I'm working with the PUMS, person and housing files (ACS-5year). I'm trying to find documentation about the income-to-poverty ratio (POVPIP).

    1. What is the poverty threshold used in the calculation for that variable?
    2. The poverty threshold used…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Summarizing 5 year PUMS data

    Mara Kaminowitz
    Mara Kaminowitz

    Hello,

    I have a table from iPUMS for 2021 5 year ACS. I want to sum the person weight in the PUMS data to create a single county total. The PUMS data distinguishes between different years in the data product - 2017, 2018, etc. When I compare the results…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases New 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year PUMS and ACS 1-Year Supplemental Estimates

    Mary Ana McKay
    Mary Ana McKay

    2023 ACS 1-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Files 

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files. The PUMS files show the full range of population and housing unit…

    • 7 months ago
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  • RE: The sampling interval for selecting households from the ACS for the PUMS

    Jeramiah Jordan
    Jeramiah Jordan

    The number of interviewed households by year are published: www.census.gov/.../

    • over 1 year ago
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  • ACS tables, PUMS, gross rent

    Gene Shackman
    Gene Shackman

    Hi all

     

    I want to see if I’m interpreting this correctly.

     

    This should link to a table of Average of gross rent as a percentage of household income past 12 months, GRPIP

    https://data.census.gov/mdat/#/search?ds=ACSPUMS1Y2021&vv=*GRPIP&cv=HISP(01…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • ACS PUMS data variable and (factor) value labels

    enavot
    enavot

    Hello all, I'm an experienced, professional user and have been using and analyzing ACS micro-data for over a decade but suddenly I have a basic question. 

    I always used IPUMS ACS micro-data, which come with a file to input the variable labels, factor…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: calculating SE and MOE in R package srvyr for a proportion using replicate weights and PUMS data

    ajdamico
    ajdamico

    hi, the instructions on this page hopefully allow you to create a survey design and run the most common analysis commands..  the latter section also includes the `srvyr` conversion in case you'd like to work with dplyr syntax.  hope this helps  :-)

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    • 9 months ago
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  • Multigenerational Households In PUMS

    Diana Lavery
    Diana Lavery

    I have been working on reproducing the state-level estimates of multigenerational households (households with three or more generations living together) so as to calculate it by PUMA. It's taken me quite some time, but I've got it to be off by no more…

    • over 3 years ago
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