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  • GQ Population in non-household ACS Measures?

    I have a question that should have a very straightforward answer but I cannot find any Census documentation that provides a clear answer.

    For ACS measures at the town level, are Group Quarter (GQ) persons (Particularly, those in prisons) included in…

  • RE: 2016 ACS Yiddish + Other West Germanic languages

    That's really disappointing, but it's a technically accurate classification. Yiddish and PA Dutch are Germanic languages. The ACS tends to create overly broad and often less accurate language groups in order to get the numbers high enough to publish…

  • County-Level Estimate of 4-Year Olds by Race / Ethnicity

    I'm working with a nonprofit that is trying to estimate what percentage of 4-year-olds they are serving in our county by race/ethncity, and I'm looking for the best denominator I can find. (Our county is about 400k people all together.) We need the number…

  • RE: Impact of Migration on Poverty

    We are trying to explore a similar question--are people in poverty being pushed out of our county. I have been learning PUMS data for a poverty study that we are working on. Would it be possible to use DataFerrett and the MIGPUMA10 and MIGPUMA00 variables…

  • Proc surveymeans - is domain statement needed for subpop analysis?

    I read that when conducting subpopulation analysis for survey data using SAS proc surveymeans, one should use the DOMAIN statement, instead of BY and WHERE, to obtain correct SEs. I tried each of this approach with the ACS PUMS data, using varmethod=jackknife…

  • RE: Census Bureau plans to stop production of 3-year ACS data

    I don't often use the 3-year data, but I just found myself looking forward to a 3-year PUMS data set with all 3 years aligned with the 2010 PUMAs. Our PUMA boundaries changed significantly, making it very hard to work with multiple year data that straddle…

  • RA Job Opening – Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

    Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies is seeking applications for a Research Assistant to conduct quantitative research on issues related to housing and home improvement markets and policy. Please share with anyone you think would be interested…

  • 2018 American Community Survey Data Release Schedule

    2018 American Community Survey 1-year Estimates

    The 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates will start being released on Thursday, September 26, 2019.  These data will be available for the nation, all states, the District of Columbia, Puerto…

  • 2017 ACS Data Release Schedule

     

    2017 American Community Survey 1-year Estimates

    The 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates will be released on Thursday, September 13, 2018.  These data will be available for the nation, all states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico…

  • RE: ACS and EEO Employment Tables

    Hi Cliff--
    This past spring, I worked on a similar thing. I summarized Census ACS PUMS data into an updated report of metro area civilian workforce composition, by race, gender, and disability -- each of those variabless crosstabulated with EEO-4 job…
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