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  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2016-2020 ACS 5-Year PUMS Files and Variance Replicate Estimate Tables

    2016-2020 ACS 5-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2016-2020 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files.

    The ACS 5-year PUMS files show the full range of population…

  • RE: Racial Segregation Measures

    Sharon,

    Two things. First, the Frey data are based on census tracts, even though their result are for places. Second, there is a recent article in Demography about how the somewhat noisier ACS sample affects dissimilarity measures. That will be exacerbated…

  • RE: ACS Subjects not available for block groups?

    Hi Ian,

    Indeed, there are a number of tables for which block group data is not available. The reason for this (as far as I know) is that there's not a large enough sample at that level. In other words, the margin of error would be unacceptable.

    …

  • Aggregate dollar values suppressed for small geos

    I'm looking at table B19067, "AGGREGATE PUBLIC ASSISTANCE INCOME IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS (IN 2015 INFLATION-ADJUSTED DOLLARS) FOR HOUSEHOLDS". Looking at block groups, last year, for the 2010-2014 ACS, there were 131,952 block groups with data (the rest…

  • RE: Visualizing ACS multi-year estimates

    I don't have an answer for you, Lena, but THANK YOU for asking the question! Our agency has also been struggling with this! I will note that your charts don't display the margin of error, which is perhaps one complication too many.

  • Results from 2020 ACS Data Users Survey

  • RE: Migration In-Flow and Out-Flow

    Following up on the table that added, you can use the Add/Remove Geographies tool to select the MSA's and counties that you're after by clicking through the drop down options. I went ahead and did that for the Table B05006. factfinder.census…

  • RE: 2019 ACS: Subject Tables and Data Profile Tables in R using tidycensus

    Hi, George. Tacking this on to Matt H's reply, `tidycensus::load_variables()` will give you only the combined labels, which can be difficult to sift through to find what you're looking for. For example, S0501_C01_088 has the label "Estimate!!Total…

  • RE: Downloading large files

    Hi Sherrina, the files are now uploaded - there are separate zip files for the estimates tables and margin of error (MOE) tables. 

    I've got the U.S. and Virginia files up. (and Arizona, because that's mainly what I use, but dont think you need that):…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2017-2021 ACS 5-Year PUMS Files and Variance Replicate Estimate Tables, and Data Products for 118th Congress

    2017-2021 ACS 5-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2017-2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files.

    The ACS 5-year PUMS files show the full range of population…

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