This is all true! Especially when a zip is at the margins of civilization (in the Miami area you'd have vast swaths of Everglades that would suddenly turn into subdivisions) but for my purposes a few years ago it worked well, maybe partly because I was…
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…
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…
Hi Elise,
I work for HUD and managed the development of the ACS-based CHAS data. As Bryan said, the CHAS data are perfect for the scenario you described. With standard ACS tables there's no way to eliminate duplicative housing problems. (thanks, Bryan…
This is the general approach I use in Geocorr. You can allocate by area or population, but in practice, I almost never use area.
Here are a couple of tables I just made. One is a list showing (2020) county and (2022) planning region for each block in…
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…
well yeah it does the job but then you find that 500 people are using it as the golden standard written in stone. Production code would check the variable types and ranges and missing values and testthat everything ;).Now that I looked at it again: WKL…
Matthew Brault Nick Kobel Mark Mather Here is the response I got from the Census Bureau directly. Just some food for thought!
"You are correct that the poverty rate for Cook county is not independent from Illinois. Depending on what they are using…
Caution: LTDB uses a simplistic area weighting method to allocate historical tract data to 2010 tracts. For a more accurate alternative, in addition to providing the original 1990 and 2000 census data, NHGIS also provides 1990 and 2000 data for 2010 tracts…