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  • households vs housing units

    jma
    jma

    Hello, I am confused by the distinction between households and housing units. I've summed the weights from an ACS housing file data for a particular county, and this equals the housing units estimate given in the summary file for that county. But when…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • Values of Zero for Median Year Structure Built

    Lauren Payne-Riley
    Lauren Payne-Riley

    For the latest 5-year ACS estimates, I noticed a discrepancy in the values for MEDIAN YEAR STRUCTURE BUILT BY TENURE (B25037_001) between the 5-year state summary file records and the matching data on data.census.gov.

     For example, Lincoln County, Kansas…

    • over 4 years ago
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  • RE: U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates

    Glenn Rice
    Glenn Rice

    Can anyone explain why some data is available on data.census.gov but not in the summary files? 

    For example, Table B06007 (Place Of Birth By Language Spoken At Home And Ability To Speak English In The United States). It appears to be available on data…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • RE: Housing Cost Burden at County Level by Race/Ethnicity

    Matt Schroeder
    Matt Schroeder

    You're correct: the ACS summary files do not have this information, so the PUMS is your best bet. IPUMS-USA has county codes, but if a county you're examining can't be identified in the PUMS data, you can use the CHAS data, a special tabulation of ACS…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: Documentation for 5 year sequence for state tables

    Mark Mather
    Mark Mather
    Hello,
    The Summary File documentation page on the Census Bureau's website is a good place to start:
    www.census.gov/.../summary-file-documentation.html
    • over 5 years ago
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  • RE: Trouble accessing 2010 5-year estimates for Block Groups in Miami-Dade County

    Samuel Olah
    Samuel Olah

    I am trying to use the Summary File Retrieval tool to view 2010 ACS data for selected Block Groups in Miami-Dade County but it does not work, is there a way of bypassing this?

    • over 3 years ago
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  • RE: Filtering by race and ethnicity

    JamiRae
    JamiRae

    I believe the sample sizes are much too small for that sort of breakdown. The closest you could get is by Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander. And even that will be limited. Check out the Appendices file (Appendix A) in the Summary File documentation…

    • over 4 years ago
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  • RE: Household vs population of block group

    JamiRae
    JamiRae
    Check out the Appendices in the summary file technical documentation. it gives the universe for each table.
    www.census.gov/.../summary-file-documentation.html
    • over 5 years ago
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  • RE: Multiple regression model with unemployment proportion as response

    DWK
    DWK

    Thank you so much! Is it also safe to assume that there are probably not a lot of instances where Block Group level estimates from ACS 5-year summary files are used in modeling because of their high MOEs?

    • over 3 years ago
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  • Group quarter population - large discrepancy between ACS 5-year and Decennial estimates

    Abby Stevens
    Abby Stevens

    I am working on building a synthetic population that includes group quarters and am stumped by a pretty large inconsistency between the ACS 5-year and decennial census reported group quarter populations in the block group that contains the Cook County…

    • over 1 year ago
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