Since the margin of error is unsigned, I would think that you should still use the sum-of-squares method when calculating aggregated MOEs. But I'm not a statistics expert.
Did you get an answer yet? Age and sex and race are controlled by estimates IIRC so there’s no margin of error unless you’re getting into more detail than the published age-race-Hispanic-sex estimates
Using replicate weights, in general, will result in quite low standard deviations compared to the published numbers that the Census puts out. This is especially true for income, since income is, of course highly skewed and if one follows a reasonable…
Hello all,
Does anyone know of any resources that examine measurement error in the decennial long form? I know the Census did not publish margins of error per se.
Thanks for any assistance.
Two things:
1 - Tim is right. Total population for a county is an estimate from PopEst, and doesn't have sampling error, so margin of (statistical) error is 0.
2 - Formula for calculating aggregated MOE is the same whether you're summing or subtracting…
I would love to know the answer to this.
This is a very interesting table note to an ACS table.
This table, of sex by age
https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?t=Populations%20and%20People&g=0400000US36&d=ACS%205-Year%20Estimates%20Detailed%20Tables&tid=ACSDT5Y2018.B01001&hidePreview=true…
I have geospacially clipped census blocks into a new geography to estimate the population for the new area (new area/old area * population estimate).
Is there a method to calculate the new margin of error for these new estimates?
Location quotients are used to quickly explain the concentration of something in a small area compared with the whole.
I'd like to use these statistics to compare the concentration of various immigrant groups in a metro with the country overall. The basic…
I know it's been four months, but I'm just getting back to this topic in the past week. I successfully used your PUMS suggestion, and the results suggest that the Yost index of SES is fairly stable for large areas, as I expected. Calculating MOEs for…