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…
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…
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…
HI! I am new to working with PUMS and am working with a team to replicate a housing affordability study which relies on PUMS records to calculate housing that is both affordable and available by unit within local area median income ranges.
First, I have…
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…
Not seeing a VRE Table for B17022 through the FTP. Trying to sum some estimates within the ZCTA-level table for 2021. Does this table exist somewhere? Other than dropping to covariance term, is there another work around here to sum MOEs? Thank you!
Has anyone else been working with the race variables in the 2020 ACS 1-year PUMS with experimental data. The readme file says not to compare estimates using the experimental data with other PUMS. But race is one of the dimensions controlled for in the…
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2016-2020 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files.
I've been having some trouble finding a direct answer to this question, so I thought I'd toss it in here! I have used PUMS data to calculate rates of poverty for children by race and ethnicity in Illinois. The results I got are here (margins of…