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  • RE: Extracting demographic details in a single file from US census website

    To follow up on Beth's posting, (I don't think that this solution will be very satisfying but ) I use R and the API to combine across tables and geos. I wrote an R function(s) to do weighted sums, products and ratios across geos and table categories …

  • 1 vs 5 year estimates regarding annual difference in median income

    We are trying to calculate the difference in median annual income at the county level between those who are high school graduates vs. those who are less than high school graduates.  There are both 1 year and 5 year estimates from the ACS available.  The…

  • Question about missing MOE

    Hi,

    This is a pretty basic question but I can't seem to find a concise explanation online, and I'm pretty new to the ACS!  I'm just looking up general data on the racial/ethnic make-up of Illinois and Illinois counties in 2016 (using 2012-2016…

  • Suppressed data in the 2022 5-year estimates that have never been suppressed before

    We have noticed there are quite a few -666666666 values in the 2018-2022 5-year ACS estimates. These are for variables that have always had values previously. For example, B19067_001 (cash public assistance income). Out of the 31,895 CDPs we are interested…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases New 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year PUMS and ACS 1-Year Supplemental Estimates

    2023 ACS 1-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Files 

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files. The PUMS files show the full range of population and housing unit…

  • 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: Tutorials on using PUMS data in R

    Vincent,
    I'm pretty new to R and have been using SPSS to analyze the PUMS files. However, in discovering that I need to using the replicate weights to generate my own MOE and recently learning that SPSS cannot do that, I am deciding between R or STATA…

  • RE: Variances in Census Block data for two files

    Thanks Mark! It's curious that there would be such a high margin of error. Do you have any insight into that?

  • Message from Ari L.

    "Margin of Error by Geography in the ACS": www.arilamstein.com/.../
    • http://www.arilamstein.com/blog/2016/03/14/margin-error-geography-american-community-survey-acs/
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  • RE: Mapping 5 Year Data

    Not sure if you're using ESRI products for mapping, but maybe their article on Margin of Error can help: www.esri.com/.../understanding-margin-error

    Also, I attended an Association of American Geographers annual conference several years back where…
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