• 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…
  • RE: Android app: Gateway To MAST

    It has recently come to my attention that when people search the Google Play Store for Gateway To MAST (which creates custom tabulations of ACS PUMS), it sometimes does not appear first in the search results, but may be buried by a few pages, even though…

  • RE: Statistically comparing estimates

    Here is the response I got from the Census Bureau directly.  Just some food for thought!

    "You are correct that the poverty rate for Cook county is not independent from Illinois.  Depending on what they are using…

  • Calculating a Weighted Share of a Larger Group

    Hi folks, 

    I've got a bit of a conundrum. I am trying to replicate a Pew analysis of multi-racial groups by mapping ancestry onto race (Pew's methodology is here, and is not super clear). Basically, I am using R to try to create a simple racial…

  • RE: Stata error with ACS API

    Hi ,

    Unfortunately, I did not. My experience has been that I've had issues from both Stata's end and from the Census, and things work one day and break the next.

    One of my colleagues has adapted a work around to use Stata and Python…
  • RE: ACS 5-Year 2019 (demographic groups under income threshold)

    There are a couple aspects of the CHAS data about which users should be aware and that are not well documented. 

    If you are familiar with how federal housing funds works, you probably know that what we call "80%" of Area Median Income (AMI) is often not…

  • Making The Most of 2017 ACS 5 Year Data

    Greetings Colleagues,

    I have been trying to find a time efficient way of sourcing census data for all block groups in a State. The AFF site only allows this for one county at a time. Data Ferrett looks like it is no longer maintained. Whether or not that…