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…

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…

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…

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?

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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…

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…

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Can anyone point me to documentation that explains how the allocation flags tie back to the primary variables? I'm specifically trying to get estimates of Medicaid enrollment by using HINS4, FHINS4C, and FHINS4P, and while it seems like the variable…

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…

PUMAs were not used until the 2012 ACS. How would I need create comparable PUMAs for 2006-2011 to then convert them to Metropolitan Statistical Areas geographic level areas using the Missouri Census Data center crosswalk tool?

Michelle