• Aggregated data at County level for all PUMAs geographically within County for 2016-20 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…

  • Race variables in 2020 1-year PUMS with experimental data

    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…

  • RE: U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2017-2021 ACS 5-Year PUMS Files and Variance Replicate Estimate Tables, and Data Products for 118th Congress

    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!

  • Statistical significance using PUMS data

    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…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2016-2020 ACS 5-Year PUMS Files and Variance Replicate Estimate Tables

    2016-2020 ACS 5-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2016-2020 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files.

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

  • Householder / Reference Person PUMS Data

    Hello! 

    I'm currently trying to create a tabulation of limited English household x race (of householder / reference person) and limited English household x place of birth (of householder / reference person). However, the race and place of birth variables…

  • Total population and Total Housing Unit Population using ACS PUMS in R

    Hi!

    I am looking to obtain the total population and total housing unit population for a PUMA using the 2018 ACS 1-year PUMS file for TX. I use these files often, but admittedly have never been tasked with deriving these numbers. I am using R in RStudio…

  • Visualizing PUMS Race and Ethnicity Housing Data Together

    Hi,

    I'm interested in comparing home ownership rates between different races/ethnicities. Based on the way the questions are structured, the easiest way would be to have two separate plots, one for race and one for ethnicity. However, I personally find…

  • RE: PUMS: Causal Inference and Weight

    Longer answer: there is a lot going on in this question. I personally am not satisfied with the existing answers. The problem is that you have two VASTLY different inferences you need to make:

    1. inference with respect to the pseudo-random assignment…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2019 ACS 1-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Experimental Weights

    The American Community Survey (ACS) program has released a file containing experimental weights that can be joined to the 2019 ACS 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) file. The weights were produced using the same methodology used to produce the 2020…