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  • RE: Detailed Race, Hispanic Origin, Ancestry, and Tribal Population Group Tables at Differing Levels of Geography

    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…

  • SAS code to calculate Margin of Error/ confidence interval

    I am a relatively new user of PUMS data. I use the 2016 1 year estimate PUMS population data, subset it to a dataset include the individual data for a county within the age group of my interest (ffx). Then I need to calculate the population estimate of…

  • RE: Table S2301 (Employment Status) - population universe question

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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: 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: 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)?

  • 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: 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: 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…

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