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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…

    • 6 months ago
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  • Small Area Estimation ACS R Package Windows and Linux installers

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Dear All,

    I have posted the open source Poverty Assessment Toolkit R package PAT_0.7.zip on the GitHub open source website:

    https://github.com/ddorer44/PovertyAssessment

    Updated to 0.7 12-18-23

    https://github.com/ddorer44/PovertyAssessment/blob/main/PAT_0…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • Identifying unincorporated Areas in the ACS

    Adam Bickford
    Adam Bickford

    We are trying to create tables showing the percent of income spent on housing costs( e.g. Table  B25101)  for unincorporated areas in Colorado.  I was wondering if anyone has tried to do this.

    One approach we thought of was a "top-down" method of taking the…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: Analyzing Data Over Time, Across Census Tract Changes

    Jonathan Schroeder
    Jonathan Schroeder

    Regarding your hope to analyze tract data "from year to year," you should know that no Census Bureau data products directly support the measurement of annual changes in census tracts. That would require a massive sample of the population every…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • RE: Creating ALICE standards poverty measure for PUMAs

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    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…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: missing county-level data in S0102: POPULATION 60 YEARS AND OVER IN THE UNITED STATES

    Diana Lavery
    Diana Lavery

    There is an errata note specifically about Rio Arriba County, NM.  Lots of data missing (and holes in my nationwide maps over the years).  It it not an error on your part. 

    https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/errata/125.h…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: Are the state-to-state 1-year migration flow files available anywhere in an analysis-ready format?

    erb32
    erb32

    Just a quick note to any potential IRS data users to say that there are irregularities in the IRS SOI migration files for 2014-2015 (very low in- and out-migration) and 2016-2017 (very high in- and out-migration). I have written to them about this and…

    • 11 months ago
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  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases Documentation Supporting the 2016 ACS 1-Year PUMS Files and 2016 1-Year Supplemental Estimates

    Tyson Weister
    Tyson Weister

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2016 ACS 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Files and 2016 ACS 1-year Supplemental Estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, October 19, 2017. This documentation…

    • over 7 years ago
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  • RE: Creating Multi-Year estimates

    Nick Kobel
    Nick Kobel
    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
    • over 5 years ago
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