Hello All,

I'm fairly new to the PUMS Microdata. I'm using the ACS5 2018 vintage. My question is about those with a null (-1) Home Sale Price value (variable VAL). 

I'm only dealing with household heads (SPORDER=1). I first filtered out all group…

Does anyone know how the Census assigns the PUMS codebook value "b" code to a text value in the downloaded (API) data?

I was looking at the LNGI "Limited English speaking household" PUMS variable.  When you fetch PUMS data via the API…

This seems to be a basic issue:  How does one identify households below the Federal Poverty Level in the ACS PUMS data?

Income and the ratio of income to the Federal Poverty Level (POVPIP) are in the person file.  Are there ways to identify households in…

I read in the 2020 documentation for the PUMS that the PUMS includes approximately two-thirds of the full ACS sample. Is this the case for all of the 1-year PUMS files (e.g. two-thirds of each year's ACS sample for 2000-2019)? Or do the public use files…

I am trying to use the ACS API (application programming interface) to download selected PUMS variables.  There are 2 types of records (RT variable, "H"=Housing record "P" person record.)  When I use the API examples: https://api.census…

I want to do a QED analysis on ACS data for causal inference -- specifically between broadband and income. Before proceeding with that I want to understand the nuances of using such method on the ACS data. I could not find any existing work that has done…

Does anyone know what PUMA definitions are used for the 2020 ACS 1-year PUMS data with experimental weights? 

Normally, 2020 ACS data should use 2020 geographies, but I don't see that the 2020 PUMAs have been released yet. Did the Bureau use the old (2012…

Hi all,

Does anyone know why the variance estimates for the 2020 PUMS estimates are smaller than the previous years?