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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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: 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: workers in their POWPUMA

    Also if you are looking at employed persons that will most likely be where they live, not where they work. I believe there are a limited number of tables in the ACS that have workers as the universe and geography is by place of work. I am not as familiar…

  • 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 > 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: 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: Complete ACS data series

    Hi Julio. The PUMS microdata provides detailed linguistic and ancestry data. www.census.gov/.../pums.html. The spatial resolution is lower than the tabular ACS data, but you can gain a great deal in terms of detail. I hope this might be of some help to…

  • RE: County level estimates

    Bernie, thank you for your suggestions and it's very helpful. Do you know how use the Counties in PUMS data? I have to compute the count of these veterans who would be eligible for VA healthcare using their income and disability fields in the PUMS data…
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