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I am looking to obtain the total population and total housing unit population for a PUMA using the 2018 ACS 1-year PUMS file for TX. I use these files often, but admittedly have never been tasked with deriving these numbers. I am using R in RStudio…
Looking ahead to Thursday's ACS release, I'm trying to examine change over time for relatively small groups. Because margins of error tend to be too wide in the one-year data to say much about change over time, the natural temptation is to compare the…
Dear Christine,
Since I use PUMS data and the variables that are included in the Lifeline eligibility criteria quite a bit, i went ahead and wrote an R function to do the "dirty work" of making the calculation. For AL 2021 1 year PUMS data this code produces…
You can use this CDF to estimate the standard error for the 20th percentile as follows:
Determine the income range group for the 20th percentile.
Calculate the CDF for that income range group.
Use the CDF to estimate the proportion of households…
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2014-2018 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files.
The ACS 5-year PUMS files show the full range of population…
We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2019 American Community Survey 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, September 17, 2020. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare…
Hello Everyone,
I have downloaded the B08202 table at Tract Level for the 2017 ACS 5 Year data. The extent I am looking at is for all tracts in all New Mexico Counties plus all tracts in El Paso County, TX.
I am able to derive the Total Workers for all…
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2013-2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files.