Hello, I am using PUMS data to calculate the percentage of electricity cost to annual household income in an area. I notice that there are a lot of negative numbers in the household income. After aggregating my data by using R, I found the average percentage…

Does anyone know how to download the PUMS replicate weights (all 80 of them) using the API ?  When I try to list all 80 variable in the API call I get the ERROR: "error: 'get' is limited to 50 variables."  Is there a way to download the…

Hello, I am a 1st year demography graduate student.  I do not have a strong background in statistics, but I am doing my best to learn.

I am looking for a method of comparing estimates across years for statistical significance for a statistic derived from…

Can someone please tell where to obtain 2015-2019 ACS PUMS replicate weights. I do not see the option of obtaining the replicate weights in the data.census.gov micro data. And I do not know how to use the FTP files. Do one or more of them contain the…

Hi,

I'd love to get acquainted with using PUMS data. What is a good, free training resource that I can use?

Thanks,

Sowmya

Sorry to be dense but what is the latest 5 year PUMS data and what year PUMAs does it use ?  Can't see to locate info using google.

Thanks !

Hello All,

I'm fairly new to the PUMS Microdata. I'm using the ACS5 2018 vintage. My question is about those with a null (-1) Home Sale Price value (variable VAL). 

I'm only dealing with household heads (SPORDER=1). I first filtered out all group…

Does anyone know how the Census assigns the PUMS codebook value "b" code to a text value in the downloaded (API) data?

I was looking at the LNGI "Limited English speaking household" PUMS variable.  When you fetch PUMS data via the API…

This seems to be a basic issue:  How does one identify households below the Federal Poverty Level in the ACS PUMS data?

Income and the ratio of income to the Federal Poverty Level (POVPIP) are in the person file.  Are there ways to identify households in…