I am conducting some analysis using the 2020 ACS PUMS, and one evaluation is the changes in the number of initial addresses selected by states. I did a simple comparison of the numbers in 2020 to the numbers in 2019. I noticed a significant difference…
My understanding (and I am not a demographer unlike Beth) is that the Census population projections do miss the local population dynamics when it is caused by very localized effects. I remember a presentation at one of the ACS conferences that showed…
No I am referring to their webinar on the new estimate methods. They are more less ignoring much of the 2020 Census--
OMG they aren't NEARLY NOR REMOTELY similar. BRFSS has always been a phone survey, so the impact of COVID was close to none -- if anything, response rates crept up a little bit for the late spring / summer of 2020 when people stayed home and were…
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Hi Folks -
How's everyone doing? Kind of a tough time these days.
To that end, at work I've been working on something to try to understand the impact of COVID-19 closures on Massachusetts' most vulnerable workers. So far we've looked at part-time…
Dear Christine,
MAKING PROGRESS
I was able to reproduce the AL row in the Lifeline spreadsheet. The value is 626087 I used the 2021 1-year PUMS. I added SPORDER==1 to the code posted earlier This code here computes with only SPORDER==1 person records…