• RE: Using ACS to construct a socioeconomic index and margins of error

    I know it's been four months, but I'm just getting back to this topic in the past week. I successfully used your PUMS suggestion, and the results suggest that the Yost index of SES is fairly stable for large areas, as I expected. Calculating MOEs for…

  • Calculating Margins of Error for PUMS Estimates in R

    Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to calculate margins of error on counts in R. So far I've had no luck. I'm hoping that there's an R package out there that will make this a bit easier, but I've not seen anything as yet.

    At the moment…

  • how to calculate the MOE of a ratio of derived proportions

    Location quotients are used to quickly explain the concentration of something in a small area compared with the whole.

    I'd like to use these statistics to compare the concentration of various immigrant groups in a metro with the country overall. The basic…

  • RE: Deriving Data Profile and Subject Tables from Base Tables? Calculating MOE of metric from aggregated ACS variables?

    Hi Phong, I was wondering if you ever got any assistance with this, as I have the same question? I am having a difficult time finding some of the source variables from the detailed variables for subject tables and can't find documentation anywhere either…

  • Calculating a percent of a margin of error

    Dear community,

    I am looking for guidance on calculating a percent of a margin or error. My work involves analyzing potential population risk to flooding, where I geospatially overlay block groups with flood zones in ArcGIS. If, for example, a block group…

  • SAS code to calculate Margin of Error/ confidence interval

    I am a relatively new user of PUMS data. I use the 2016 1 year estimate PUMS population data, subset it to a dataset include the individual data for a county within the age group of my interest (ffx). Then I need to calculate the population estimate of…

  • Using Margins of Error in Data Aggregation

    I am working on a project in which we wish to calculate population changes over time in different types of neighborhoods. We began by classifying each census tract in the U.S. as urban, suburban, or rural. We next needed to calculate the total population…

  • RE: MOEs for derived averages

    To possibly answer my own question and ask a new one: Could I use formula (9) to do this?

    Calculating Measures of Error for the Product of Two Estimates

    Since dividing x / y is the same as the product x * 1/y, could this work?

    EDIT: trying this out.…

  • Margin of Error vs. Geography in the ACS

    I just wrote a blog post on Margin of Error vs. Geography in the ACS. I'd love feedback from members of this group: www.arilamstein.com/.../