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  • PINC vs HINC for Income by Gender

    Hi ACS Folks,

    I am using PUMA data in order to get a bit more dis-aggregation by race (dis-aggregated Asian races) and household type and in order to compare incomes and poverty status to the UW Self Sufficiency Standards. Note, I am ONLY working with…

  • Discrepancy in San Francisco population?

    I'm comparing Google public data (http://bit.ly/1ibkhwL) vs. acf tabulated data.

    Specifically, I'm looking at a big jump that appears between 2007 and 2008 in ACF data:
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    factfinder2.census.gov/.../0500000…

  • Homeless population and those in transitional housing

    Hello ACS data users group! This is my first post.

    I am working with some local nonprofits that serve the homeless population and who help people move into transitional housing. I'd like to get estimates of the size of these two populations broken down…

  • Characteristics of owner-occupied housing

    Discovery of the week:

    Decennial census data on the value of owner-occupied housing was always based on "specified owner-occupied units," meaning that they were single-family units on parcels of less than 10 acres (thus excluding farms), and did not have…

  • Estimate of Type of Unit (TYPE) Results in a value of 0 for Institutional & Non-Institutional GQ.

    This is my first time using ACS PUMS data and I am trying to create an estimate of the Type of Unit variable from the housing file(s) of the 2015 1-yr ACS. I am using the a, b, and Puerto Rico files (ss15husa.csv, ss15husb.csv, ss15hpr.csv). I am using…

  • ESR vs COW

    Hi All,

    As a means of a data check as I'm not very familiar with the employment variables I created an unweighted crosstabulation of the variables Class of worker (COW) and Employment Status Recode (ESR) in the Rhode Island 2013 1-year persons PUMS file…

  • RE: PUMAs in the Greater Boston MSA

    Jean-Baptiste

    I am a planner with Cambridge, MA, one of the cities in the Boston Metro region.  Information on PUMA boundaries and which PUMAs are included in a region is harder to locate than you would expect.  

    One trick you can use is to go to the IPUMS…

  • RE: Comparing 2005-9 ACS 5 year with 2010-14 ACS 5 year

    Hi Joe,

    Unfortunately, I don't have any ideas, but your post brings up some questions that might spark ideas. My first thought is this: Would the population controls for 2009 and 2010 data be different in the 2009-2013 PUMS file? Or did they adjust them…

  • 2015 ACS Release Schedule Announced

    2015 ACS Release Schedule Announced

    2015 ACS 1-Year Estimates 

    The 2015 ACS 1-year estimates will be released on Thursday, September 15, 2016. These data will be available for the nation, all states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, every congressional…

  • Military service member earnings: allowances(?)

    Can anyone speak to if and where in the ACS PUMS "non-wage"compensation paid to military servicemembers shows up?

    For example "Basic Housing Allowance"? (which, I believe, might be paid directly by the service to a private provider, or provided…

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