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  • Single-family, owner-occupied homes

    What is the best way to capture single-family, owner-occupied homes in PUMS? I was thinking of using the units in structure (UNITSSTR) and property tax (PROPTX99) variables, selecting for 1-family houses, attached/detached and paying property tax (any…

  • RE: Race/Ethnicity Breakdown help

    There are several questions on this thread. Here are some at least partial answers:

    1. ACS data is annual. there are no monthly figures available. Monthly unemployment by race and other subgroups might be available through the BLS, but I am unsure…

  • 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…

  • Using ACS 5-year estimates to examine social, economic, and housing characteristics BY Race/ethnicity for small city

    Hi All,

    I'm new to using census and ACS data and am hoping someone can help me navigate the data. I'm trying to find data for a small town (population ~21,000) on various social, economic, and housing characteristics by "Race."

    Here…

  • 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: Is it Possible to Download ACS data at the Census Tract Level

    There are 84,414 census tracts so usually you download data (ACS "B" detailed tables typically). for a single state or a single county within a state. The most effective way to do this is through the ACS "API" Application Programming interface. To do…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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