Hi all,

I am working with the microdata of 2020 5-year ACS data. 

I am trying to calculate the percentage of people in New York city that received public assistance income in the past 12 months. So I used pap variable (a person record), conditioning on…

Hello,

I'm a new ACS user seeking to create custom tables for race/ethnicity breakdown of educational attainment in all NY PUMAs for ACS 5-year estimates for vintages 2013 and 2018. I've created this easily for 2018 but having trouble with 2013.…

I am working on my first project with Microdata and a client asked me two technical questions about the variables:

• How is POVIP: Income-to-poverty ratio recode calculated?
• How is OCPIP: Selected monthly owner costs as a percentage of household income during…

Do any of you know if the 5-year estimates will be published given that the 2020 1-year estimates are experimental?  What is/will Census decision be? Are there any remedies for the 5-year estimates if the decision is no? What is Census Bureau's schedule…

I've found a data issue while using the ACS 2010-2018 1-year microdata, accessed through IPUMS. In a small subset of the data, sometimes "bedrooms" exceeds "rooms". I contacted both IPUMS and the Census, and neither were able to figure out why the…

Good morning all.  This is my first time posting here and am thankful I found this resource.  I am a researcher working on a project using the ACS and wanted to know if anyone has developed tax filing units (usually family members and other relatives that…

Hello, I am interested in joining person and household data using the SERIALNO variable from the 2019 5-year ACS. Here is my code for this action using RStudio Version 1.4.1106:

# Load Person and Household data for 2019 ACS

pums2019pop <- read.csv("C…

Sorry if this is off topic, but I think this forum is a great resource for ACS data users. A lot of the same people also use CPS. Does anyone know of a similar forum dedicated to CPS?

Hi,

I am trying to label a character derived from person records, and then add it to household records. For example, I want to mark the household with elderly aged 90 or above.  There are 2 types of data, person record and household record. I collapsed…

The Census Bureau provides county level estimates of population and housing units here: 

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/data-sets.html

I'm wondering if these estimates are available at a PUMA level as well? If not, how would one go…