I am currently working on a project to estimate the number of (renter) households by AMI ranges (such as 80, 50 and 30% of AMI) using micro data (PUMs). How can I add AMI to the PUMs data file to analyze them together? The geography in PUMs is PUMA (not…
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I'm working with the PUMS, person and housing files (ACS-5year). I'm trying to find documentation about the income-to-poverty ratio (POVPIP).
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Might anyone know why a PUMS bookmark, created on the beta site, wouldn't function as expected? My first use of PUMS worked well - I can still access my analysis using the bookmark.
Today I've created another table but the bookmark just defaults…
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I have a table from iPUMS for 2021 5 year ACS. I want to sum the person weight in the PUMS data to create a single county total. The PUMS data distinguishes between different years in the data product - 2017, 2018, etc. When I compare the results…
Hello all, I'm an experienced, professional user and have been using and analyzing ACS micro-data for over a decade but suddenly I have a basic question.
I always used IPUMS ACS micro-data, which come with a file to input the variable labels, factor…
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I want to see if I’m interpreting this correctly.
This should link to a table of Average of gross rent as a percentage of household income past 12 months, GRPIP
https://data.census.gov/mdat/#/search?ds=ACSPUMS1Y2021&vv=*GRPIP&cv=HISP(01…
Hello, I am using PUMS data to calculate the percentage of electricity cost to annual household income in an area. I notice that there are a lot of negative numbers in the household income. After aggregating my data by using R, I found the average percentage…
I have been working on reproducing the state-level estimates of multigenerational households (households with three or more generations living together) so as to calculate it by PUMA. It's taken me quite some time, but I've got it to be off by no more…
Hello, I am a 1st year demography graduate student. I do not have a strong background in statistics, but I am doing my best to learn.
I am looking for a method of comparing estimates across years for statistical significance for a statistic derived from…
Does anyone know how to download the PUMS replicate weights (all 80 of them) using the API ? When I try to list all 80 variable in the API call I get the ERROR: "error: 'get' is limited to 50 variables." Is there a way to download the…