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  • 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: 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…

  • 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: 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Salvo.pdf

    • Salvo.pdf
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