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  • Accounting for multiple responses with over 5 years of PUMS files

    Is it possible to determine whether households completed the survey more than once if over 5 years of PUMS data are being combined?

  • Is MIGPUMA using 2000 or 2010 Census definitions within the 2020 ACS 5-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)?

    Hello,

    I am attempting to obtain some demographic information on those migrating to Forsyth County, NC. For this, I was planning to leverage the MIGSP and MIGPUMA variables available in the 2020 ACS 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). While reviewing…

  • Comparing ACS Table 18120 with PUMS (2019 1 year estimates)

    Hello,

    I'd like to seek help with a couple of questions about comparing ACS Table and PUMS estimates.

    My project is related to estimate the number of people with vision difficulty and then calculate the employment-population ratio. I used two ways…

  • 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…

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