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  • Relating ACS Variables to SN Number

    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…

  • 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…

  • Census 2020-based PUMAs are apparently finalized

    The Census 2020-based Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) are apparently finalized. I found a Census Bureau page that provides a link to ALL of the new PUMAs, in PDF format.

    https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-maps/2020/geo/2020-pumas.html

    My…

  • Using ACS for Complex Data Dives

    Hello,

    I'm trying to determine the best way to do more complex queries using ACS. It may be that my better answer is PUMS or another method, in which case, please let me know! My current director is leaving, and she's not familiar with the changes…

  • Distribution of Occupied Housing Units by number of persons in household

    Can someone help me understand what's going on here?

    I created the table below from the PUMS 2018 1yr housing file showing the number of Occupied Housing Units by number of persons in the household (variable NP).

    I would expect to get the total population…

  • 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…

  • RE: Median annual earnings

    Good morning -

    Here are a couple of thoughts:

    First, yes, you do need to weight cases using PWGTP.

    Second, when troubleshooting, it might make sense to first try and replicate the results in an existing table (such as number of workers in each income…

  • 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: 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…

  • 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…

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