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  • RE: Questions on How To Count Workers

    Peter.C
    Peter.C
    Great - thanks Doug. Yeah, gig-economy workers seem to be particularly hard to pin-down in ACS/PUMS data.
    • over 5 years ago
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  • RE: show occupation codes

    Diana Lavery
    Diana Lavery
    The ACS PUMS - SOC crosswalk codes are available in this ACS Code List document: www2.census.gov/.../2018_ACS_Code_Lists.pdf (occupation info starts on page 81). Hope this helps!
    • over 5 years ago
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  • RE: Detailed Languages Spoken at Home, Ages 5-17

    Patty Becker
    Patty Becker
    I agree with Cliff that PUMS is your best bet, and you can get the PUMA maps by searching for them at census.gov, or contacting your state data center lead agency. But please be careful - the MOEs will be high, although they don't show on PUMS, especially…
    • over 5 years ago
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  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases New 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Datasets and Stats in Action Stories

    Gretchen Gooding
    Gretchen Gooding

    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…

    • over 6 years ago
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  • RE: Table S2301 (Employment Status) - population universe question

    Aaron Olson
    Aaron Olson

    Table S1811 is a good comparison here because it lists economic characteristics of the population with a disability for those age 16+. If you look at the total universe counts for those with disabilities on that table, you will see that they are much…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • Updated 2017 ACS Data Release Schedule

    Gretchen Gooding
    Gretchen Gooding

    Due to the government shutdown, the release schedule for the 2013-2017 ACS 5-year PUMS files and 2013-2017 ACS Variance Replicate Estimates Tables was adjusted from the original release date of January 17th. The new dates are:

    Thursday, February 7th:…

    • over 6 years ago
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  • Editing of health insurance variables in 2019 ACS

    cfiorentini
    cfiorentini

    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…
    • over 4 years ago
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  • RE: Detailed Race, Hispanic Origin, Ancestry, and Tribal Population Group Tables at Differing Levels of Geography

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Dear Cliff,

    My reading of the webpage is that the 7000 applies to all levels of geography.  This would typically rule out tracts, some city/towns (County Subdivision CSD) and perhaps some counties. There are also rules based on cell size, in which case…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: 2020 ACS 1-Year Experimental Estimates

    Mark Mather
    Mark Mather

    The Census Bureau announced today that the 2020 ACS 1-year experimental data will be released on Tuesday, November 30. This release will also include the 1-year PUMS with experimental weights, a technical working paper, and a blog. The Census Bureau will…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • Relating ACS Variables to SN Number

    Elle Rose
    Elle Rose
    Hi everyone,
    My name is Elle and I am a high school student relatively new to R. I am using ACS data for the first time to conduct a research project relating the gut microbiome health of Native Hawaiian individuals to specific spatial information and…
    • over 1 year ago
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