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  • 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
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  • 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…

    • 11 months ago
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  • 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
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  • 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 2 years ago
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  • 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
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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: 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 4 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: 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
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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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