• Today: Documentation and Webinar Supporting the 2022 American Community Survey 1-Year Data Release

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2022 American Community Survey 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, September 14, 2023. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare…

  • RE: Why does B05012 not show Puerto Rico

    As Mark's response indicates, there are differences in the survey questions in the Puerto Rico Community Survey versus the American Community Survey. Numerous tables are designed to exclude Puerto Rico data or to include only Puerto Rico data. (They…

  • RE: Summarizing 5 year PUMS data

    It sounds like you are trying to compare results from a summary of PUMS data to summary file data. Without more information on the specific topic/table you are trying to replicate, I can only provide general comments. Hopefully they help. For questions…

  • RE: Block Group level data

    I dont know that you can do this using data.gov. You'd probably be better off getting what you need from nhgis.org or work directly with the summary files off the FTP site www.census.gov/.../summary-file.html

    I have the summary files in SQL files…
  • 2016-2020 ACS 5-year Estimates

    Changes to Tables for the 2016-2020 ACS 5-year Release

    Visit 2020 Table and Geography Changes for a list and description of all new, modified, and deleted tables as well as information on changes to geography.

    Select Summary File Materials Released

    Sup…

  • RE: 2023 5yr PUMS Data by County

    Glenn is correct. NHGIS and Social Explorer redistribute the published ACS Detailed Tables (i.e., Summary File) data. I don't know of published ACS tables that cross-tabulate poverty ratio by race. In any case, NHGIS doesn't have any. I'd guess that…

  • Today: Documentation and Webinar Supporting the 2023 American Community Survey 1-Year Data Release

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2023 American Community Survey 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, September 12, 2024. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare…

  • RE: Is it Possible to Download ACS data at the Census Tract Level

    You can use IPUMS NHGIS to get any of the standard ACS summary file tables (including those you described) for census tracts or other levels in CSV files that include the entire US and Puerto Rico. The site is free and requires only registration and agreement…

  • RE: 2018 data download error

    I believe S tables are summaries and pull together from a variety. The easiest way for me to find the tables I need is to check out the Appendices in the Summary File documentation that has a full list of the tables. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys…

  • Reading 2020 Census DHC data into R

    For those of you working on today's release of DHC data from the 2020 Census, here's some R code that will combine the different segments of the DHC summary file and create one dataset with all the tables, with the columns named just like they are in…