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Are income values in the ACS PUMS 5-Year data adjusted for inflation?

The PUMS 5-year data file contains an inflation adjustment variable (ADJHSG and ADJINC). Can someone confirm whether these values have been applied to the income variables (HINCP…

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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…

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…

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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…