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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: 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: 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…

    • 9 months 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: 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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  • 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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  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2012-2016 ACS 5-Year PUMS Files and Variance Replicate Estimates Tables

    Justin Keller
    Justin Keller

    2012-2016 ACS 5-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2012-2016 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files. 

    The ACS 5-year PUMS files show the full range of population…

    • over 7 years ago
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  • RE: Count Question Resolutions and ACS data

    Todd Graham
    Todd Graham

    hi Jon--

    Your posting says their were some big discrepancies or "discontinuities" between 2020 counts versus your expectations coming out of ACS 2019 (or population estimates v2019). Population estimates can be wrong. Decennial census counts can also…

    • over 3 years ago
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