2025 ACS CONFERENCE RECORDINGS AND PRESENTATIONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON THE CONFERENCES PAGE.
American Community Survey Data Users Group
American Community Survey Data Users Group
  • Sign Up
  • Log in
  • Site
  • Search for topics, people, or keywords
  • User
  • Home
  • Discussion Forum
  • ACS Resources
  • Webinars
  • Conferences
  • Steering Committee
  • More
  • Cancel
  • Home
  • Discussion Forum
  • ACS Resources
  • Webinars
  • Conferences
  • About
  • More
  • Cancel
  • RE: Asian Population from ACS 1-year estimates

    adambibler
    adambibler

    Hello Saima, It looks like those estimates are not released for Miami City (https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=B01001D&g=0400000US12.160000&tid=ACSDT1Y2019.B01001D&hidePreview=true). You might have to resort to using the PUMS. 

    • over 3 years ago
    • Discussion Forum
    • Forum
  • RE: Same-Sex Couples Data in ACS 2014-18?

    Stas Kolenikov
    Stas Kolenikov

    My understanding of the Census Bureau process is that this won't happen retroactively. You can always estimate from the PUMS microdata (although in the near future, who knows what's going to happen with the differential privacy algorithms applied to it…

    • over 3 years ago
    • Discussion Forum
    • Forum
  • RE: poverty levels among 60+

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Look at B17024   The age categories are 55-64  and 65-74 and  75 and over

    the poverty levels are in intervals starting at below 50% going up to 500% +   there are 12 different intervals.

    Since you are doing all of NM, you could use the NM PUMS file and create…

    • over 2 years ago
    • Discussion Forum
    • Forum
  • Approximating the Median for a group of census tracts

    Diana Lavery
    Diana Lavery

    Hello,

    A question I get from time to time is, how to calculate/estimate/approximate the median (age/income/home value/monthly rent/etc.) when grouping together a few different census tracts. I want to have a better answer for them than, "do it using PUMS…

    • 9 months ago
    • Discussion Forum
    • Forum
  • RE: How to integrate Area Median Income with Table B19001 (household income brackets by race)

    Cliff Cook
    Cliff Cook
    Isaac

    I have done exactly what you want to accomplish using the ACS PUMS data. If you are unfamiliar with this resource I suggest taking at look at the IPUMS USA website (https://usa.ipums.org/usa/) where you can generate and download data extracts…
    • over 5 years ago
    • Discussion Forum
    • Forum
  • GEOCORR PUMA to Tract duplicates

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Dear Glenn,

    I have a relationship file/crosswalk file from GEOCORR.   I mapped 2012 PUMAs (current geography for PUMAS/2021 PUMS) to 2020 Tracts (currently used for 2017-2021 ACS 5 year tables).  I get quite a lot of duplicate County/Tract combinations.…

    • over 1 year ago
    • Discussion Forum
    • Forum
  • person weights and percentiles

    jayphoward
    jayphoward

    I'm attempting to use the PUMS data to compute earnings percentiles for each undergraduate degree, for various subsets of the population.

    For instance, "what are the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentile incomes for non-Hispanic white men aged…

    • over 3 years ago
    • Discussion Forum
    • Forum
  • RE: Microdata questions

    Diana Lavery
    Diana Lavery

    Hi Sarah, yes, I agree with Stas. The best way to answer this question is working with the actual dataset. I know ipums is great, but I have more familiarity with the regular PUMS dataset from census.gov (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/microdata…

    • over 1 year ago
    • Discussion Forum
    • Forum
  • RE: Covid impacts on 2020 ACS

    Beth Jarosz
    Beth Jarosz

    Data collection did resume over the summer (for details see press release here: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/ongoing-surveys.html).

    I have not seen any formal announcement (such as a "Tip Sheet") of data release dates for 2020 ACS…

    • over 4 years ago
    • Discussion Forum
    • Forum
  • RE: Anyone ever use Maxqda?

    Ed Christopher
    Ed Christopher

    There is the CTPP data products derived from a special tabulation of ACS by the transportation community. It has more workplace data, cross tabs and universes than found in standard ACS products along with worker flows with limited characteristics on…

    • over 3 years ago
    • Discussion Forum
    • Forum
<>
For more information about the American Community Survey Census Bureau Website
prb logo prb