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

    John Grumbine
    John Grumbine
    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…
    • over 7 years ago
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  • Finding Tract Level Total Workers for ACS 5 Year 2017 Data

    David Nelson
    David Nelson

    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…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • RE: Group quarters availability by block group for ACS 2023 5Y

    Joe Tuccillo
    Joe Tuccillo

    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…

    • 3 months ago
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  • RE: Estimating percentiles from range data other than the median/50th percentile

    anthony.gaines
    anthony.gaines

    You can use this CDF to estimate the standard error for the 20th percentile as follows:

    1. Determine the income range group for the 20th percentile.

    2. Calculate the CDF for that income range group.

    3. Use the CDF to estimate the proportion of households…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases Documentation Supporting the 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates

    R. Chase Sawyer
    R. Chase Sawyer

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2018 American Community Survey 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, September 26, 2019. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare…

    • over 5 years ago
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  • RE: Poverty via PUMS and Poverty using table B17001

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    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…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: Missing Data in 2022 Census Flat File

    Glenn Rice
    Glenn Rice

    And regarding the tract income, page 1 of the documentation says:

    In March, using the Census Redistricting Data, the FFIEC released a limited flat file as the first part of the FFIEC 2022 release. These fields cover only demographic information, not tract…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • Comparing Non-Overlapping 5 year estimates from 2006-2010 and 2011-2015

    cmcdermott
    cmcdermott

    Has anyone compared non-overlapping 5-year estimates from 2006 - 2010 and 2011 - 2015 at the tract level?  What has been your experience and how do you feel about the reliability of the results?

    I looked at ‘Drove Alone to Work’ comparing ACS tables B08006…

    • over 7 years ago
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  • RE: Anyone ever use Maxqda?

    Ed Christopher
    Ed Christopher

    There is the CTPP data products derived from a special tabulation of ACS by the transportation community. It has more workplace data, cross tabs and universes than found in standard ACS products along with worker flows with limited characteristics on…

    • over 3 years ago
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