When I compute poverty status using the PUMS variable POVPIP <100 (percent) to create a variable "Below Poverty Level"  and "Above or equal to Poverty Level'  I get no missing data and a total population of 124,553 (OHIO CLEVELAND…

Hello - I apologize if this ends up being a relatively basic question, but I am working right now to replicate the methodology used by the Universal Service Administrative Co. (USAC) to estimate the total eligible population for USAC's Lifeline pr…

Hi all,

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

I am working with the PUMS data and am correlating education with internet adoption. I am ideally looking for a field that tells about highest education attainment at the household level. Is the SCHL field per individual or at a household level?

Hello,

I am trying to use the 2021 ACS 1-Year household-level data sets from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/data/pums/2021/1-Year/ within R. However, the majority of the columns are empty when I read in the csv files. Why is that so?

I have…

HI All,

Thank you for your insights in advance. I would like to better understand the PUMS data variables, missing data, and allocated questions. This is the first time I am working with PUMS data and analyzing such a large dataset. 

1. Why do some questions…

(Hello all! I'm new to this forum; old to census analysis)

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I am using the 2020 1-year ACS, accessed from IPUMS. I created two variables, the AMI threshold based of HUD income cutoffs within the region of interest; and whether the household had more than 1 occupant per room (overcrowded). 

I joined my clean data…

Hi - I'm excited to dig into the experimental 2020 ACS PUMS data. I saw the US housing file on the FTP site yesterday after the webinar, but it seems to have disappeared before I could download it. See here: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys…