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  • 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 Data Ferrett looks like it is no longer maintained.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…

  • Creating Multi-Year estimates

    Since Census Bureau discontinued the 3-year multiyear estimates files in 2014, I'm attempting to create 3-year estimate files for more recent years using PUMS. After contacting ACS support, they mentioned a simple approach of combining the 1-year files…

  • Missing values for replicate weights

     Good morning,

    I am using SAS to generate estimates from pooled 2012-2015 ACS PUMS data. Below is the macro I am using to average the 4 years of replicate weights. Also shown below is the error message indicating that missing values are produced. How have…

  • RE: 2012 ACS 1-year estimates are now available

    For many reasons I use AFF only when I have to. For many of my projects I use Data Ferrett or PUMS data, both of which have a steep learning curve, but has allowed me to dig much deeper into the data than I could otherwise. Honestly, I usually just do…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Census Bureau Updates on the Dissemination of ACS Data

    Tune in to the plenary session at the ACS Conference this morning to hear the latest Census Bureau updates on data privacy and their new data dissemination platform.
     
    Dissemination of ACS Data: Looking Ahead
    Wednesday, May 15, 8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m. (EDT…

  • 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:
    factfinder2.census.gov/.../0500000US06075
    factfinder2.census.gov/.../0500000…

  • 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…

  • 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…
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