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

    George Malachowski
    George Malachowski
    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…
    • over 11 years ago
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  • Census Bureau Updates on the Dissemination of ACS Data

    Mark Mather
    Mark Mather
    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…
    • over 6 years ago
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  • PINC vs HINC for Income by Gender

    Elise Cordle
    Elise Cordle

    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…

    • over 5 years ago
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  • Homeless population and those in transitional housing

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    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…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • Discrepancy in San Francisco population?

    chaosgame
    chaosgame
    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…
    • over 11 years ago
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  • Characteristics of owner-occupied housing

    Patty Becker
    Patty Becker
    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…
    • over 11 years ago
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  • Estimate of Type of Unit (TYPE) Results in a value of 0 for Institutional & Non-Institutional GQ.

    Mihir Iyer
    Mihir Iyer

    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…

    • over 8 years ago
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  • RE: PUMAs in the Greater Boston MSA

    Cliff Cook
    Cliff Cook

    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…

    • over 5 years ago
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  • ESR vs COW

    Jessica Cigna
    Jessica Cigna
    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…
    • over 10 years ago
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  • RE: Comparing 2005-9 ACS 5 year with 2010-14 ACS 5 year

    John Grumbine
    John Grumbine
    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…
    • over 9 years ago
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