• Info about SCHL field in the PUMS data?

    I am working with the PUMS data and am correlating education with internet adoption. I am ideally looking for a field that tells about highest education attainment at the household level. Is the SCHL field per individual or at a household level?

  • Creating Custom Tables Using the American Community Survey PUMS

    The Census Bureau’s ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files enable data users to create custom estimates and tables that are not available through ACS pre-tabulated data products. This webinar introduces the ACS PUMS files and provides several…

    • https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2022/custom-tables-using-acs-pums.html
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  • Unexpectedly low margins of error for 2020 PUMS 1-yr file

    I am using the 2020 1-year ACS, accessed from IPUMS. I created two variables, the AMI threshold based of HUD income cutoffs within the region of interest; and whether the household had more than 1 occupant per room (overcrowded). 

    I joined my clean data…

  • PUMS Allocation Data

    HI All,

    Thank you for your insights in advance. I would like to better understand the PUMS data variables, missing data, and allocated questions. This is the first time I am working with PUMS data and analyzing such a large dataset. 

    1. Why do some questions…

  • PUMS with Experimental Weights for Other Years?

    (Hello all! I'm new to this forum; old to census analysis)

    Questions:

    1) Will the Census Bureau be developing and releasing a 2019 (yes, 2019) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) using Experimental Weights?
    I’m not sure this is a simple-to-answer…

  • Can One Find Adult Dependents using ACS or PUMS data

    I have been asked to come up with a number for adult dependents (i. e., not the householder or spouse, 18-65 years old, financially dependent on the head of household/spouse).  I do not believe that ACS data lets me ask that question directly.  Using PUMS…

  • 2020 PUMS US Housing File

    Hi - I'm excited to dig into the experimental 2020 ACS PUMS data. I saw the US housing file on the FTP site yesterday after the webinar, but it seems to have disappeared before I could download it. See here: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys…

  • Aggregated data at County level for all PUMAs geographically within County for 2016-20 PUMS

    HI! I am new to working with PUMS and am working with a team to replicate a housing affordability study which relies on PUMS records to calculate housing that is both affordable and available by unit within local area median income ranges.

    First, I have…

  • RE: U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2017-2021 ACS 5-Year PUMS Files and Variance Replicate Estimate Tables, and Data Products for 118th Congress

    Not seeing a VRE Table for B17022 through the FTP. Trying to sum some estimates within the ZCTA-level table for 2021. Does this table exist somewhere? Other than dropping to covariance term, is there another work around here to sum MOEs? Thank you!

  • PUMS Data

    I am trying to download IPUMS data for all states in the U.S. using the R function get_pums. However, I receive the following error message when running the code. 

    Error: Your API call has errors.  The API message returned is There was an error while running…

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