• Homeless and Poverty

    Hello All,

    Does anyone have documentation discussing the homeless and poverty levels?  Are the homeless included in the "poverty universe?" Is it possible to identify homeless counts?  I am searching PUMS data and can also IPUMS data.

    Specifically…

  • RE: 2021 ACS: Top coding or other processing for very high incomes

    Dear Diana,

    In general the ACS PUMS data and the data used in the "B", "S", "DP" use the same source data. For top coding the PUMS codebook is a useful place to start.  The disclosure avoidance  techniques used in ACS  tables…

  • RE: Poverty Dashboard - any feedback is appreciated

    I'm working on a R package that will give the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) at the tract level.  Eventually I hope to post the package on GItHub. The method uses PUMS data including the SPM PUMS data https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/time-series…

  • RE: Near Poverty

    Dear Derek,

    B17024 only gives Below Poverty Level yes/no.  I need a  between 100% to 125% of poverty level.  I also need age 60+ which is a "non-stardard" cut point form most ACS tables. The dollar amount of Poverty level depends on total household income…

  • RE: Percentage of Palm Beach County youth (age below 18) living in poverty by RACE

    B17020 (Poverty x Age)  and B17020A - I  You have to glue together the A-G  tables  H and I are Not.Hispanic   and Hispanic

    These are for above/below poverty level   There aren't tables for 200% poverty -- You have to use a PUMS file and Small Area Estimation…

  • Can we add weights to MDAT Exports

    Hello User Group,

    I like the ease of using MDAT to access PUMS data. It's a good interface with a lot of user-friendly ways to customize and aggregate microdata. What it does not currently do calculate the RSE of the estimates. I have to rely on R or…

  • RE: Filtering by race and ethnicity

    or use PUMS like Tim says! :) 

  • PUMA / TRACT relationship file for 2017-2021 5 year ACS solved

    After much thrashing about, I was able to get my program to work by using a 2014 (?) PUMA to 2021 census tract crosswalk.  Hats off to the people at GEOCORR. One issue was that the PUMS file that we are using is from 2019 (the Supplemental Poverty Measure…