This seems to be a basic issue: How does one identify households below the Federal Poverty Level in the ACS PUMS data?
Income and the ratio of income to the Federal Poverty Level (POVPIP) are in the person file. Are there ways to identify households in…
I am trying to use the ACS API (application programming interface) to download selected PUMS variables. There are 2 types of records (RT variable, "H"=Housing record "P" person record.) When I use the API examples: https://api.census…
I want to do a QED analysis on ACS data for causal inference -- specifically between broadband and income. Before proceeding with that I want to understand the nuances of using such method on the ACS data. I could not find any existing work that has done…
2018-2022 ACS 5-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2018-2022 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files.
The ACS 5-year PUMS files show the full range of population…
When I compute poverty status using the PUMS variable POVPIP <100 (percent) to create a variable "Below Poverty Level" and "Above or equal to Poverty Level' I get no missing data and a total population of 124,553 (OHIO CLEVELAND…
Stas Kolenikov said:as far as I understand that tool... which I don't
LOL, I guess I need to work on the documentation
Does anyone know what PUMA definitions are used for the 2020 ACS 1-year PUMS data with experimental weights?
Normally, 2020 ACS data should use 2020 geographies, but I don't see that the 2020 PUMAs have been released yet. Did the Bureau use the old (2012…
Hi all,
Does anyone know why the variance estimates for the 2020 PUMS estimates are smaller than the previous years?
Hello - I apologize if this ends up being a relatively basic question, but I am working right now to replicate the methodology used by the Universal Service Administrative Co. (USAC) to estimate the total eligible population for USAC's Lifeline pr…
Hello,
I am trying to use the 2021 ACS 1-Year household-level data sets from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/data/pums/2021/1-Year/ within R. However, the majority of the columns are empty when I read in the csv files. Why is that so?
I have…