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  • RE: I'm finally starting to run tabulations from the new 5 year file ...

    Robin DiSalvo
    Robin DiSalvo
    Hi John,

    Thanks so much for the detail that went into explaining how to understand the tabulation in the new file based on people age 35+in Hillsborough County (FL). I am amazed how much information can be extracted from PUMS. I would definitely be interested…
    • over 9 years ago
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  • RE: (lack of) transportation among older adults

    Chuck Purvis
    Chuck Purvis

    Gwendolyn: Table B25045 provides the number of SENIOR HOUSEHOLDERS with 0, 1, 2, 3, etc, vehicles in the household. The 18,013 is an estimate of senior households, not all persons age 65+ with zero vehicles in the household. It's a conservative estimate…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • GutierrezF.pdf

    Mark Mather
    Mark Mather
    • GutierrezF.pdf
    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: Calculating household incomes when household and person files are merged

    Vincent Palacios
    Vincent Palacios
    Hi Anise,

    I'm happy to take a look. What you propose sounds roughly correct (keeping the householder record, using the household weight, using a weighted average). The most likely problem I can think if is that you're dropping cases with 0 income. Another…
    • over 7 years ago
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  • RE: Detailed group quarters type

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Dear Andy,

    Here is some info that I found on intercensal group quarters.  The methods are part of the Population Estimates Program (PEP).  I also emailed with the people in the GQ group. You may be familiar with this info.  Here is how GQ population estimates…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: Top-coded values

    ultimate
    ultimate
    I wasn't able to fully implement what I wanted to do last year with the 2013 PUMS but am hoping to do it with the 2014 PUMS. What models for censored data would you recommend? I have heard a lot about the Tobin model for censored regressions but was unsure…
    • over 9 years ago
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  • RE: Mean vs median in income and age

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Dear Tom,

    Tim is correct if you want to know "how much money is floating around in a community" use average (mean) and multiply by head count.  If you want to know what the  amount of money that a "typical" household or person has use median.…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: technical difference between B17024 and S1702 and B17012

    Alicia
    Alicia
    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…
    • over 8 years ago
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  • RE: Group quarter population

    Beth Jarosz
    Beth Jarosz

    Good morning Grigoris -

    Yes--if you can find a GQ table to pair up with the total population table, subtracting the two will give you an estimate of household population for that group (e.g. Hispanic/Latino total minus Hispanic/Latino GQ = Hispanic/Latino…

    • over 4 years ago
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  • Calculating Standard Error of A Median in SAS

    Douglas White
    Douglas White

    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…

    • over 6 years ago
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