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  • Info about SCHL field in the PUMS data?

    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?

  • PUMS Allocation Data

    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…

  • 2021 ACS 1-Year Household-Level PUMS Data Sets Mostly Empty

    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…

  • Creating Custom Tables Using the American Community Survey PUMS

    The Census Bureau’s ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files enable data users to create custom estimates and tables that are not available through ACS pre-tabulated data products. This webinar introduces the ACS PUMS files and provides several…

    • https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2022/custom-tables-using-acs-pums.html
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  • PUMS with Experimental Weights for Other Years?

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

    Questions:

    1) Will the Census Bureau be developing and releasing a 2019 (yes, 2019) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) using Experimental Weights?
    I’m not sure this is a simple-to-answer…

  • Unexpectedly low margins of error for 2020 PUMS 1-yr file

    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…

  • 2020 PUMS US Housing File

    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…

  • Can One Find Adult Dependents using ACS or PUMS data

    I have been asked to come up with a number for adult dependents (i. e., not the householder or spouse, 18-65 years old, financially dependent on the head of household/spouse).  I do not believe that ACS data lets me ask that question directly.  Using PUMS…

  • PUMS Data

    I am trying to download IPUMS data for all states in the U.S. using the R function get_pums. However, I receive the following error message when running the code. 

    Error: Your API call has errors.  The API message returned is There was an error while running…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2018-2022 ACS 5-Year PUMS Files and Variance Replicate Estimate Tables, and Additional ACS Selected Population Tables and American Indian and Alaska Native Tables

    2018-2022 ACS 5-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2018-2022 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files.

    The ACS 5-year PUMS files show the full range of population…

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