Hello,
I am doing a research project using ACS 2010 5 year estimates. I have downloaded education files for my census tracts of interest and I found that for many of my selected tracts, the given education subcategories do not always add to 100%. Has anyone…
We are collecting town level data for the state of Connecticut and wanted to construct a measure of racial segregation in each town. I was planning to create a measure of non-white share of the population [(total population - white population)/total pop…
We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2021 American Community Survey 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, September 15, 2022. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare…
Hi Joe and all. I try not to make pitches for Social Explorer in this group, but we our systems allows one to get a median income for any combined area. The way it works is that it uses the brackets for income and adds up all of the cases in each bracket…
If you want to use R (which is free) the mipfp package does this for a set of multidimensional marginal tables. If you have a lot of variables or marginal tables, I have an R program (function) with the same arguments as the mipfp package that calls a…
Hi Todd,
Others may be able to explain it better, but the way I usually explain the 5-year estimates is that they are period estimates. They are estimates created from surveys collected throughout the 5-year period. So basically you could have responded…