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  • RE: Table B19049 in 2015 5 YR ACS Data Missing Values for Florida

    Janice Valdisera
    Janice Valdisera
    Between 2014 and 2015 the Census Bureau began suppressing medians when the margins of error associated with the medians was larger than the median itself. For example, the 2014 median household income for Calhoun County, Florida was $9,426 with a margin…
    • over 8 years ago
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  • RE: Adjusting Income in ACS

    Dave Stinchcomb
    Dave Stinchcomb
    The units for the estimate and for the margin of error are the same. For median income, I THINK (please correct this info if it is wrong) that the units are in inflation-adjusted dollars for the ending year of the ACS time period - for example, the 2005…
    • over 9 years ago
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  • subcategory values not adding to 100%

    Elizabeth Perry
    Elizabeth Perry

    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…

    • over 6 years ago
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  • Population data (measuring segregation)

    rglweiner
    rglweiner

    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…

    • over 9 years ago
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  • Documentation Supporting the 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates Now Available

    Mary Ana McKay
    Mary Ana McKay

    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…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • RE: Joining ACS 2015 Data with Census Block Shape files 2015

    Maribeth Todd
    Maribeth Todd
    I'm not sure which data tables you are using from ACS 2015, but there is some data suppression for geographies where the margins of error are larger than the estimates. You can see an explanation and list of affected tables here: www.census.gov/…
    • over 8 years ago
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  • RE: Median Family Income at the tract level: MSA/MD statewide & non-MSA/MD

    Andrew Beveridge
    Andrew Beveridge

    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…

    • over 4 years ago
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  • RE: 1-year estimates at census tract level

    Bernie
    Bernie
    I hate to say it, but if you're looking for very subtle changes at a small geography, it could be tough to use any ACS data. The margins of error are fairly high, and any tricks you might use to estimate higher 1 year estimates to the tract level will…
    • over 7 years ago
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  • RE: Combining 1-year supplementals

    Beth Jarosz
    Beth Jarosz
    Hi Lisa -

    There is also a more focused webinar by Alicia VanOrman of PRB, Nate Ramsey of US Dept of Education, and Dave Hubble... That webinar left me feeling more confident in options for aggregating multiple years of data:
    acsdatacommunity.prb.org…
    • over 8 years ago
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