We are pleased to announce the release of the 2013-2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates. The ACS is the most relied-on source for up-to-date social, economic, housing, and demographic information every year. These statistics cover all geographic…
2011-2015 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2011-2015 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates. The ACS is the most relied-on source for up-to-date social, economic, and housing information…
Dear Lorna,
Here is some additional documentation that might be useful.
Here is some documentation on how the income and expense items in the SPM PUMS file are computed.
https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/supplemental-poverty-measure/technical-documentation…
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…
Dear Madalsa,
I was hoping to see if I could make an example out of what you discovered but here are 3 reasons why "things don't add up" in tables
1) You added an extra variable to the tabulation. In your case, the total US population is…
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2014-2018 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, the most relied-on source for up-to-date social, economic, housing, and demographic information every year. The ACS is the only source of local statistics…
Yes, the 2020 Redistricting Data files included no data for ZCTAs. I suppose this is because the Bureau hasn't (or hadn't) yet defined the official 2020 version of ZCTAs and are waiting to release 2020 summaries for ZCTAs until that is done. (As I recall…
Thanks, Diana. I'm working with counties of 20-30K population so not working with PUMS.
I realized after posting that it is problematic using the BLS calculator since it requires that you enter a month as well as a year to adjust from and to.
I found…