• RE: Creating Multi-Year estimates

    Have you seen this? The PDFs show some of the differences in derived 3-year vs published 3-year, which might account for your population count being off by 1%.
    acsdatacommunity.prb.org/.../custom-multiyear-estimates-webinar
  • RE: Poverty via PUMS and Poverty using table B17001

    Dear Beth,

    Thanks for replying on the weekend.  You must be a night owl like me. I'm hoping that someone has reconciled the PUMS calculation to the ACS detailed tables numbers for poverty level. When I do this with other variables I usually come within…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases Documentation Supporting the 2016 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates

     

    We are please to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2016 American Community Survey 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare for…

  • PUMS API

    Does anyone know how to download the PUMS replicate weights (all 80 of them) using the API ?  When I try to list all 80 variable in the API call I get the ERROR: "error: 'get' is limited to 50 variables."  Is there a way to download the…

  • Early release materials for 2015 ACS 1-year estimates now AVAILABLE

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2015 ACS 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare for next week's data release…

  • Household record and person record

    Hi,

    I am trying to label a character derived from person records, and then add it to household records. For example, I want to mark the household with elderly aged 90 or above.  There are 2 types of data, person record and household record. I collapsed…

  • RE: Creating ALICE standards poverty measure for PUMAs

    Dear Erik,

    Do you want to know how to create weighted statistics from tract level data ?  I use PUMS data to create a model (loglinear) from a multivariate table based on PUMS variables at the PUMA level . I then adjust the model based on various marginal…

  • tmap, tidycensus, and choropleth maps for places (cities)

    Greetings,

    I have select data at the city/place level (not tracts, ZCTAs, etc.), just attribute/variable per city.

    I have pulled the places shapefile from tigris and merged the two files and attempted to plot them in R (e.g., using tmap, ggplot2).

    However…

  • RE: Looking for veterans statistics joined with household data in PUMS - Help appreciated!

    Hi Julie,

    I ran a tabulation through MAST that may answer your questions, if the 2014 data is acceptable to you. Unfortunately, when I tried to upload it, I got a message that it is either too large or an unacceptable file type. It was .csv, then I…