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  • RE: children in poverty by race at the county level

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    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…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: Comparisons Within the Same Time Period

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    I assume that you might want a ratio of the "sub" area and the larger area.  For example a county might be the "large "area and the "subset" a single tract.  You might want the ratio of the 2 populations (B01003)

    In general…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: Statistical significance using PUMS data

    Bill Byrnes
    Bill Byrnes

    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.

    • over 4 years ago
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  • HUD uses B19113 (ACS1 by default, if not stat valid then ACS5, if ACS5 not stat valid then prior averages etc etc.), does that ever happen?

    tomlaheyh
    tomlaheyh

    Don't want to go down a rabbit hole on HUD stuff, the table they use is B19113 (took me over an hour to find the webpage that lists which table);

    https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il.html#faq_2023:~:text=The%20basis%20for%20HUD%E2%80%99s%20median…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • Comparing ACS estimates to 2010 decennial estimates

    Michael Sullivan
    Michael Sullivan

    I'd like to compare some ACS estimates to decennial Census figures and assess the statistical significance of changes. (In this case, population totals for Congressional districts.)

    I don't see margins of error for decennial Census figures, presumably…

    • over 5 years ago
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  • RE: Population aggregates at CBG and CT not matching (for ACS and Decennial Year as well)

    Madalsa Singh
    Madalsa Singh

    Thanks Dave for the helpful breakdown. I discovered that the error is probably at the level of geographic selection for NHGIS. When I select all of United States, my totals add up. But when I only select the lower 48 states in the dataset I get different…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • RE: Can anyone direct me to the ACS county-level data about persons living alone and (household or persons') phone ownership?

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    ACS Question 7 2018

    Does this house, apartment, or mobile
    home have– Yes No

    a. hot and cold running water?
    b. a bathtub or shower?
    c. a sink with a faucet?
    d. a stove or range?
    e. a refrigerator?
    f. telephone service from
    which you can both make
    and receive…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • RE: MoE and unreliable

    Andrew Beveridge
    Andrew Beveridge

    I am afraid that the Bureau actually miss handled there computation of MOE, if one is a frequentist, if one is a Bayesian that approach is even worse.  On the frequentist, I had a debate with Bureau a long time ago, where they indicated that they realized…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: Rationale for making comparisons using non-overlapping periods

    Bernie
    Bernie

    Here's how I'd put it to a non-expert: 5-year estimates exist because that's the time required to collect a sufficient number of survey responses (particularly in small areas like census tracts, ZCTAs, or small towns). The 5-year estimates in small areas…

    • over 4 years ago
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  • RE: Downloading ACS tables without MOE columns (similar to option in the old American FactFinder)?

    Stan Drezek
    Stan Drezek

    I just took a sample table, clicked on Customize, chose Margin of Error box which turns it off, and then clicked on any table cell and chose export to Excel and it came in without MOE column

    stan drezek

    • over 5 years ago
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