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  • RE: Separating Renters and Homeowners in Low Income Household Measurements

    Diana Lavery
    Diana Lavery
    Hi Alex,

    Are you working with the PUMS files? If so, you can merge the population file with the housing units file using the serial number (actual variable is called "serialno") and then there's a variable for tenure called "ten" in the PUMS housing…
    • over 9 years ago
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  • Higher than expected population numbers

    Jlee
    Jlee

    It's been a while since I used PUMS. I downloaded a data file and loaded it into SPSS. To check myself, I wanted to check a basic population number. I've weighted by person weight and did a basic sex frequency table, and my numbers are consistently about…

    • over 6 years ago
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  • RE: PAP measure

    Beth Jarosz
    Beth Jarosz
    In PUMS, food stamps/SNAP participation is captured in the FS variable, and Medicaid/CHIP is recorded in HINS4.
    PAP reflects TANF/welfare.
    For details on each concept, see the Subject Definitions document at www2.census.gov/.../2016_ACSSubjectDefinitions…
    • over 7 years ago
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  • RE: Migration In-Flow and Out-Flow

    John Grumbine
    John Grumbine
    I think that you are probably better off with that table than with the PUMS data that I can give you. The table is more current - the data that I'm working with is from 2014.
    • over 7 years ago
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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: Table not generating data

    Beth Jarosz
    Beth Jarosz
    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.

    …
    • over 5 years ago
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  • Klimek.pdf

    Mark Mather
    Mark Mather
    • Klimek.pdf
    • over 2 years ago
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    • 2023 ACS Conference Files
  • RE: microdata and filter by MSA

    Jonathan Schroeder
    Jonathan Schroeder

    Yes, the policy for geographic information in public use microdata is to identify no sub-state entities other than Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) which are specialized units required to have at least 100,000 residents each, helping to protect the ide…

    • 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: (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 3 years ago
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