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  • RE: Family poverty measure on Block Group level?

    As I understand, the Census API and data.census.gov don't serve any block group data from ACS summary files prior to 2013 (or so). But all releases of 5-year summary files have included block group data, and there are tables at that level for families…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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: 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 2020 ACS 5-year data + 2010-2020 geographic crosswalks now on IPUMS NHGIS

    IPUMS NHGIS has added the 2016-2020 ACS 5-Year Summary File to our site. NHGIS allows users to select any combo of the 1,100+ tables to download in nationwide files for any of 87 summary levels, down to block groups.

    To support comparisons between the …

  • 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…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2017-2021 ACS 5-Year Estimates

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2017-2021 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…

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