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  • RE: PUMAs in the Greater Boston MSA

    Jean-Baptiste

    I am a planner with Cambridge, MA, one of the cities in the Boston Metro region.  Information on PUMA boundaries and which PUMAs are included in a region is harder to locate than you would expect.  

    One trick you can use is to go to the IPUMS…

  • ESR vs COW

    Hi All,

    As a means of a data check as I'm not very familiar with the employment variables I created an unweighted crosstabulation of the variables Class of worker (COW) and Employment Status Recode (ESR) in the Rhode Island 2013 1-year persons PUMS file…

  • RE: Comparing 2005-9 ACS 5 year with 2010-14 ACS 5 year

    Hi Joe,

    Unfortunately, I don't have any ideas, but your post brings up some questions that might spark ideas. My first thought is this: Would the population controls for 2009 and 2010 data be different in the 2009-2013 PUMS file? Or did they adjust them…

  • 2015 ACS Release Schedule Announced

    2015 ACS Release Schedule Announced

    2015 ACS 1-Year Estimates 

    The 2015 ACS 1-year estimates will be released on Thursday, September 15, 2016. These data will be available for the nation, all states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, every congressional…

  • Berman.pdf

    • Berman.pdf

  • Military service member earnings: allowances(?)

    Can anyone speak to if and where in the ACS PUMS "non-wage"compensation paid to military servicemembers shows up?

    For example "Basic Housing Allowance"? (which, I believe, might be paid directly by the service to a private provider, or provided…

  • Standard errors for tract-level school enrollment ratios from ACS tables

    My organization often needs to estimate the net school enrollment ratio of children and youth ages 3-24 (inclusive) for various levels of geography including census tracts. For larger geographies, we estimate this directly from the PUMS and calculate…

  • RE: A Threat to the ACS from the Bureau Itself

    I was surprised to see this topic come up in the City Observatory newsletter this week so I am copying their comment below.  (City Observatory is newsletter that looks at urban planning issues through an economic lens.):

    New Knowledge

    Synthetic microdata…

  • RE: Decile cutpoints - inclusive or not?

    This is a problem I've had to deal with a lot. Whether it's percentile ranges or intervals to be used in a discrete distribution based on dollar amounts or some other "continuous" variable, here's how I proceed:
    1. determine the level…

  • Tuccillo.pdf

    • Tuccillo.pdf
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