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  • Identifying small property landlords in PUMS

    Hi -

    I was looking at this Urban Institute blog post: https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/owners-and-renters-62-million-units-small-buildings-are-particularly-vulnerable-during-pandemic

    I was interested in reproducing it using PUMS data for Cambridge, MA…

  • Help with MDAT Pums

    I am trying to gather data for a project for work and I am getting  what I think is an error code.  I get ??? for values in the cell.  Any help would be appreciated.  The variables are below 

    Universe: selected geographies: Arlington County (North) PU..., Arlington…

  • PUMS 2019 1-year estimates: retraction or changed data?

    Have there been any changes to the PUMS data since it has been released for 2019? I'm trying to figure out if I have an issue with user error or if the data itself has changed.

    I downloaded state level data person-weighted POVPIP and AGEP data for…

  • Calculate poverty rate, adult educational attainment, and unemployment using 5 year ACS PUMS

    I am trying to calculate the adult education rate, unemployment rate, and poverty rate by GEOID using the 5 year acs PUMS. I plan on using these variables in an analysis for predicting youth disconnection. Ideally I would like to merge these variables…

  • Languages data for population ages 5 and older, with breakdown of numbers by ability to speak English categories, for Queens, NYC (PUMS)

    Hi,

    I would like to retrieve the following dataset from MDAT, but I'm having challenges with confirming the accuracy

    2020 5-year ACS PUMS

    Weight: Person

    Variables: Language other than English spoken at home, Population ages 5+ only, Ability to speak…

  • How to identify head of household from PUMS files?

    Hi all, 

    I'm using the ACS 1-year PUMS files (2018) and am trying to determine how I can determine whether a respondent is head of household. I saw that on IPUMS there is the RELATE variable and the source variable for RELATE is the RELP variable. With…

  • Calculating Margins of Error for PUMS Estimates in R

    Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to calculate margins of error on counts in R. So far I've had no luck. I'm hoping that there's an R package out there that will make this a bit easier, but I've not seen anything as yet.

    At the moment…

  • Update your bookmarks: PUMS has a new section on census.gov/acs!

    We have some exciting news, which is that we redesigned the PUMS section of census.gov/acs! You can navigate to it from the "Microdata" tab on the left-hand navigation from the ACS home page. This new section serves as a one-stop shop for PUMS…

  • PUMS weighted population count for NH

    We are starting to work with the 2018 1-year PUMS data.  After downloading the datasets, we always check the number of weighted observations in the Person Record and cross reference it with the Census Bureau's published Annual Estimates of the Resident…

  • RE: Tutorials on using PUMS data in R

    Vincent,
    I'm pretty new to R and have been using SPSS to analyze the PUMS files. However, in discovering that I need to using the replicate weights to generate my own MOE and recently learning that SPSS cannot do that, I am deciding between R or STATA…
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