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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…