• ACS 1 Year Microdata Question

    Hi,

    I am a total novice using MDAT. However, for a research project I am trying to download a CSV of a custom table I've built with several recoded variables with a given state as my selected geography.

    I'm haven't been able to download a CSV that has…

  • Question about the ESR Variable

    Was looking at occupation data from PUMS, and also using the ESR variable.

    If ESR=6, you are not in the labor force. I assumed that would mean that you had no OCCP value as well.

    That assumption is wrong. Can someone explain why you'd have an OCCP code…

  • RE: MOE > value

    Dear All--

    The Census use of MOE in the ACS is very weak.  One big problem is that they use the normal approximation for the values they publish with the main release.  This results in absurd results such as  120+ - 200.  Of course one cannot have a negative…

  • RE: MoE and unreliable

    I am afraid that the Bureau actually miss handled there computation of MOE, if one is a frequentist, if one is a Bayesian that approach is even worse.  On the frequentist, I had a debate with Bureau a long time ago, where they indicated that they realized…

  • RE: home care clients to caregivers ratio

    Dear Gwen,

    Can you give a little more context/reference?  The only ACS question that I can think of that might be related to having a caregiver is about "self-care."  There are some questions about grandparents caring for grandchildren but I don…

  • Educational attainment data VS CPS ASEC

    Hi everyone!

    Has anybody looked into this apparent statistically significant difference between the two surveys on educational attainment data?

    2020 CPS counts a total of 113381 thousand 18+ civilian noninstitutionalized population with at least an associates…

  • RE: ACS Status Dropout Rates

    Keriann,
    As far as I know, this particular table is not available through published tables in American FactFinder. But you could create this variable using the ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) data. The Census Bureau provides the PUMS data for download…
  • RE: Estimating Rental Burden (GRAPI) by Race of Householder

    While I haven't tried to retrace your steps, I think this might be a universe issue. The Census Bureau doesn't calculate cost burden for households with no income or negative income. Because Stata treats missing values as the largest possible value, your…
  • RE: Energy insecurity/utility assistance data in ACS?

    Could you consider using PUMAs as the primary unit of analysis and working from the PUMS file, which as electricity, gas, and other fuel costs (ELEP, GASP, and FULP)?
  • Property Tax Topcodes

    Hi all,

    I am working on cross-state differences in property taxes in 2015.

    If I understand the data dictionary correctly, the ACS variable TAXAMT (PROPTX99 in IPUMS) is topcoded in all states and years at 10,000 USD (category value 68). 

    For states with high…