Interesting David.
There are some existing tools that combine adjacent geographic areas to meet various objective functions (minimum population, minimum margin of error, etc.). Some try to combine areas that are homogeneous by some attribute (demographics…
Hello,
I have a question that is not directly related to ACS but pertains to SAHIE and SAIPE. Since I couldn't locate a forum specifically dedicated to SAHIE and SAIPE and could not find this information, I'm reaching out here in the hope of finding…
There are a number of 0 (and small) values where the margin of error is huge compared to the value, e.g. 0 +/- 15 Black / African-American residents of Burt, MI.
Similarly, the CI can be a big proportion of the value, e.g. the 2018 5-year estimate for…
Curious how to interpret this data set? other than with extreme caution? Used the below method to calculate the CVS and almost all of them are greater than 30.
Calculating the Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Since…
Does anyone have experience or guidance for the use of the SPSS Complex Sample module to obtain the Margin of Error in the 2016 - 2020 5-year IPUMS-USA dataset? I reviewed the discouraging comments posted in the forum 6 years ago.
I included STRATA, CLUSTER…
I would think it's the percent of the total (first column, labeled "Total"). So, using your example, people who have a bachelor's degree and moved from a different state would be 2.7% of 43,585,028 (total in first column).
Subje…
It's known that segregation indices calculated using ACS tract data can be upwardly biased (see Napierala and Denton (2017) for a discussion of how the dissimilarity index can be biased: 10.1007/s13524-016-0545-z, Logan 2018, Reardon et al 2018 for…
Dear Gene,
You need to sum/combine across the 3 age categories that you want. The calculation (including MoE - margin of error) is in https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/acs/acs_general_handbook_2018_ch08.pdf
For a percent…
Hi Stas, I use a combination of R and Excel. I'm still sort of a novice at R, so I clean and recode data in R and then export it to Excel. In Excel I use pivot tables to calculate margins of error.