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  • RE: What is "PCI" in the ACS geography file?

    Jonathan Schroeder
    Jonathan Schroeder

    PCI = Metropolitan/Micropolitan Principal City Indicator

    This info, along with some other important summary file documentation, is in the (suboptimally out-of-the-way) "Notes on Data, Geography and Variable Changes" in the GitHub pages for the table…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • Using ACS summary data Stata

    patrick thornton
    patrick thornton

     Hello  I need to load  5 year 2015-2019 summary files into Stata. Is anyone using Stata who could offer help? Thanks Patrick

    • over 3 years ago
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  • 2013 1-year summary file documentation available

    Beth Jarosz
    Beth Jarosz
    For those of you who want to get a jump on next week's data release, the Census Bureau posted documentation for the 2013 Summary Files.
    www.census.gov/.../
    • over 10 years ago
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  • Seek solution to crosswalk table and column IDs of all ACS Summary files

    Shi-Jen He
    Shi-Jen He
    Aloha,
    We are trying to calculate social indicators from all summary files (i.e., all available 1,3,5-year files from year 2005 to 2013) that we had downloaded from the Census FTP sites. We found that some table/column IDs seem not always refer to the…
    • over 10 years ago
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  • RE: Extracting demographic details in a single file from US census website

    Beth Jarosz
    Beth Jarosz

    Linking based on GeoID works but can be cumbersome. There are ways to write code to download the summary files and process them using a statistical package, or to use open-source tools to write code using the API.

    Summary files option: https://www.census…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • Webinar--Accessing Block Group Data with the American Community Survey Summary File

    Gretchen Gooding
    Gretchen Gooding
    I will be presenting a webinar about accessing block groups with the ACS Summary File on Tue, Dec 10th at 1:00 PM ET. Information is posted on the Census website at www.census.gov/.../, and the log-in information will be posted as the event nears.
    • over 11 years ago
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  • RE: TableIDs in the ACS 2015-2019 metadata file named 2019_DataProductList.xlsx

    Jason8
    Jason8

    I have ArcGIS Pro/ArGIS Online and Excel and SPSS (but no SAS). Therefore I would like to learn how to use read the ACS Summary File into Excel for beginners. I would like to consider the simplest possible case for now 

    Therefore, I am using the 2019 1…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • RE: 2020 Census Tract Relationship Files

    Andrew Beveridge
    Andrew Beveridge

    Just a quick note, Social Explorer www.socialexplorer.com has Census files from the 2010 and 2020 Censuses by summary level that have results of both Censuses in a form that makes it possible to map or get reports or download data, that has combined both…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • Sequence and table number lookup SAS file for 2019 1-year

    Glenn Rice
    Glenn Rice

    For some reason, the SAS-format Sequence Number/Table Number Lookup File (found here: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/summary-file-documentation.html) has different column names than those used in years past.

    If you're…

    • over 4 years ago
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  • RE: 2017 5-year Summery File Templates

    JamiRae
    JamiRae
    Is this what you are looking for?
    www.census.gov/.../summary-file-documentation.html
    • over 6 years ago
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