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  • 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…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2015-2019 ACS 5-Year PUMS Files and Variance Replicate Estimate Tables

    2015-2019 ACS 5-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2015-2019 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files.

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

  • PUMS weighted population count for NH (cross-post)

    Apologies for cross-posting this.  I am new to posting in this group and originally put it under ACS Basics, but I believe this is the correct area for my question

     

    We are starting to work with the 2018 1-year PUMS data.  After downloading the datasets…

  • 2018 ACS 1-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Files

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files. The PUMS files show the full range of population and housing unit responses collected on individual ACS questionnaires…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases New 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year PUMS and ACS 1-Year Supplemental Estimates

    2019 ACS 1-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Files

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files. The PUMS files show the full range of population and housing unit…

  • PUMS vs. ACS

    Hello. I can't seem to find documentation anywhere about this; I know that the released PUMS datasets are approximately two thirds of the total ACS in any given year, but how does Census they go about subsetting this?

    The main thing that I'm concerned…

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