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…
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…
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!
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…
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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…