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 Data Ferrett looks like it is no longer maintained.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