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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Berman.pdf

    • Berman.pdf

  • 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

  • White.pdf

    • White.pdf

  • having problems recreating table B09021 "Living Arrangements of Adults 18 Years and Over by Age"

    Hi:

    I'm running these variables

    Where AGEP >17;
    TABLES HHT*RELSHIPP*SPORDER ;
          WEIGHT PWGTP;

    I only get good estimates for  householder living with spouse or spouse of householder,  Child of householder and Lives alone.and total

    the problem is because…

  • Census Bureau Updates on the ACS and 2020 Census

    Tune in to the plenary session at the ACS Conference this morning this morning to hear the latest Census Bureau updates on the ACS and the 2020 Census
     
    Updates on the ACS and 2020 Census: Agility in Action
    Tuesday May 14, 8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. (EDT)
     
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