• RE: Anyone ever use Maxqda?

    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…

  • RE: poverty levels among 60+

    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…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases New 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Datasets and Stats in Action Stories

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Files, and 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year Supplemental Estimates.

    2017 ACS 1-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS…

  • RE: Covid impacts on 2020 ACS

    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…

  • person weights and percentiles

    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…

  • Editing of health insurance variables in 2019 ACS

    How do I figure out what percentage of health insurance variables were edited in 2019? I'm specifically looking for edited Medicaid coverage and I see two variables in the PUMS Codebook:

    • FHINS4P - listed as allocation flag
    • FHINS4C - coverage given…
  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases New 2016 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Datasets

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2016 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Files, and 2016 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year Supplemental Estimates.

    2016 ACS 1-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS…

  • RE: Best table to use for "disconnected youth"?

    Table B14005 crosses employment status by educational enrollment status, but covers only persons 16-19.

    If you want to look at a wider age range you could turn to the PUMS data set, depending on the geography of interest. I used PUMS data analysed on…
  • GEOCORR PUMA to Tract duplicates

    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.…

  • Approximating the Median for a group of census tracts

    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…