Hi all,
New here! I've been lurking for a couple of months as I try to get myself familiarized with the quirks of working with ACS data. But I have run into a problem with some perplexing estimates in some key variables used in my research, and I…
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2017-2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, the most relied-on source for up-to-date social, economic, housing, and demographic information every year. The ACS is the only source of local statistics…
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…
Hi!
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…
I downloaded a couple of detailed tables (B01001, B01002) and noticed there are 40 block groups missing in NY when compared with 2022 5-year estimates
Do you know why these are missing?
My guess is that the estimates errors were high thus the estimates…
So far so good for making the indirect estimates of group quarters population. However, I'm also trying to estimate standard errors based on Variance Replicate Tables for the two inputs (total population and population in households) and running into…
Beth with all due respect, the Angola Prison did not send anyone home during COVID, according to the department of correction in LA it had the same count in 2020 as it did in 2010. No the problem is gross error, and the fact that the Bureau in this case…
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…