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  • Statistically Significant Trends

    I work for a community indicator project that tracks various indicators of community well-being over time, and many of these measures come from the ACS. As we update our indicators, we are incorporating more tests for statistical significance. We were…

  • Compare 2016 one-year estimates to 2011-2015 five-year estimates?

    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…

  • Creating Custom ACS Multiyear Estimates Webinar

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2014-2018 ACS 5-Year PUMS File and Variance Replicate Estimate Tables, plus 2018 ACS 1-Year Supplemental Estimates

    2014-2018 ACS 5-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)

    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…

  • Today: Documentation and Webinar Supporting the 2019 American Community Survey 1-Year Data Release

    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…

  • RE: ACS 2013 5-year data available in MS Access 2007

    Hi all,
    For some reason my profile settings didn't keep me notified of new activity on this thread. Sorry about questions to me that went unanswered.
    In any case, it took a little bit longer due to the holidays but I finished creating the SSIS project…

  • Total population and Total Housing Unit Population using ACS PUMS in R

    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…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2013-2017 ACS 5-Year PUMS Files and Variance Replicate Estimates Tables

    2013-2017 ACS 5-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2013-2017 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: Calculating ACP/Lifeline Eligibility Using Tidycensus

    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…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases Documentation Supporting the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2017 American Community Survey 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, September 13, 2018. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare…

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