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  • RE: Population aggregates at CBG and CT not matching (for ACS and Decennial Year as well)

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    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…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2011-2015 ACS 5-Year Estimates and 2016 Determinations for the Voting Rights Act

    Justin Keller
    Justin Keller

    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…

    • over 8 years ago
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  • RE: Quick Census Data Question

    Jonathan Schroeder
    Jonathan Schroeder

    NHGIS is part of the IPUMS family of websites, but it's not "PUMS". NHGIS provides summary tables and GIS shapefiles. As an NHGIS project manager, I'm biased, but I'd like to say it's the most user-friendly source of the 2020…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • RE: B11017 - Multigenerational Households

    John Maurer
    John Maurer
    Thank you for your reply Cliff. I have a call into the Census Bureau to get their official response. I agree with your assessment. It does seem strange that certain tables with few cases are suppressed while others are released in the summary file.

    I…
    • over 10 years ago
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  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2014-2018 ACS 5-Year Estimates

    Charles Gamble
    Charles Gamble

    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…

    • over 5 years ago
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  • RE: ACS 2013 5-year data available in MS Access 2007

    Jeffrey Naas
    Jeffrey Naas
    Jami, I am coding an automated process to load the text files into the Excel Summary File Templates and subsequently load the entire batch into Access. It's all nearly done except for a bit of clean-up for the Excel load sub (writing a switch for the…
    • over 10 years ago
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  • RE: Inflation Adjustment

    NearMedia
    NearMedia

    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…

    • over 7 years ago
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  • RE: Poverty Universe difference between Supplemental and Official

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    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…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: Calculating ACP/Lifeline Eligibility Using Tidycensus

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    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…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases Documentation Supporting the 2012-2016 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates

    Justin Keller
    Justin Keller

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2012-2016 American Community Survey 5-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, December 7, 2017. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare…

    • over 7 years ago
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