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…
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…
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…
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…
Matthew Brault Nick Kobel Mark Mather 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…
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…
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…
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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 Data Ferrett looks like it is no longer maintained.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…