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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • RE: ACS vs Census populations at the ZCTA level

    Ed Simmons
    Ed Simmons
    You must keep in mind that the data is collected continuously. About 1/5 of the sample was collected in 2008, 1/5 in 2009 and so on. The Bureau stresses that it is not an average. It has a 5 year sampling frame. The sample size over the 5 years is still…
    • over 11 years ago
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  • RE: Median income by race?

    Matt Schroeder
    Matt Schroeder

    [For anyone who received an email with a previous response from me, please see this one instead. I hit "reply" prematurely before.]

    Median incomes can be found in the set of tables starting with B19013. If you want mutually exclusive categories, then…

    • over 4 years ago
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  • Today: Documentation and Webinar Supporting the 2019 American Community Survey 1-Year Data Release

    Gretchen Gooding
    Gretchen Gooding

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2019 American Community Survey 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, September 17, 2020. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare…

    • over 5 years ago
    • Discussion Forum
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  • RE: 2020 Census Data by Zip Code

    Jonathan Schroeder
    Jonathan Schroeder

    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…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases Documentation Supporting the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates

    Gretchen Gooding
    Gretchen Gooding

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2017 American Community Survey 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, September 13, 2018. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare…

    • over 7 years ago
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  • SchroederJ.pdf

    Mark Mather
    Mark Mather
    • SchroederJ.pdf
    • over 2 years ago
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    • 2023 ACS Conference Files
  • Early release materials for 2015 ACS 1-year estimates now AVAILABLE

    Justin Keller
    Justin Keller

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2015 ACS 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare for next week's data release…

    • over 9 years ago
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