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  • RE: Confusion when Deriving a Percent and Reporting the Margin of Error

    Dear David--

    This is a huge problem in the ACS.  In the staqndard publicshed numbers, they use the normal approximation to compute the putative standard errro, which they turn into a margin of error.  However, for situations where the percent of given category…

  • 2020 American Community Survey Data Release Schedule Now Available

    2020 American Community Survey 1-year Estimates

    The 2020 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates are scheduled to be released on Thursday, September 23, 2021.  These data will be available for the nation, all states, the District of Columbia, Puerto…

  • RE: Calculating household incomes when household and person files are merged

    When I'm working with open data like the ACS PUMS, I create a github repo and then use that to share since it provide a reproducible example. This site also has a messaging feature but I have been unsuccessful in using it. Dropbox etc. work too.…

  • Questions on B25070, B25091, B23001 5-year ACS tables by race/ethnicity

    Hello:

    I'm looking for tract-level data by race/ethnicity for the following tables:

    B25070 GROSS RENT AS A PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLD INCOME IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS)
    B25091 MORTGAGE STATUS BY SELECTED MONTHLY OWNER COSTS AS A PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLD INCOME…

  • Calculating Standard Error of A Median in SAS

    Working with 2016 ACS PUMS data. Can anyone share how to get the standard error for a median using SAS? For example, if one was looking for the median of gross rent, it's easy enough to multiply grntp by adjhsg and find the median, but how do you calculate…

  • RE: Table not generating data

    Gottcha. The MDAT system is still in Beta testing, so I suspect there may be something that isn't working quite right. (Colleagues and PRB and I also could not get results.)
    So for now I would suggest downloading the PUMS tables and using STATA.

    …

  • RE: sum of grouped PUMA estimates within a state not equalling state estimate

    Is the state-level estimate that you're trying to match from the published 05-07 tables? If so, those estimates cannot be matched exactly by the PUMS estimates because the PUMS data is a sub-sample from the full sample which is used to create the published…

  • RE: Same Sex married Couples

    What geographic level are you looking for?
    National, single-year data (through 2015) can be found at www.census.gov/.../ssc-house-characteristics.html
    But I also do not recall seeing small-area data in any of the summary files (and I did recently look…

  • RE: technical difference between B17024 and S1702 and B17012

    Hi Beth,

    The difference between Table B17024 and Tables S1702 and B17012 is the unit of analysis. Table B17024 has children as the unit of analysis while Tables S1702 and B17012 have families as the unit of analysis. Which one you use depends on your…

  • Multiple jobs?

    Does anyone know if it's possible in the PUMS person-level file to know if a person is working multiple jobs?
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