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  • RE: Statistically comparing estimates

    Bill Byrnes
    Bill Byrnes

    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…

    • over 4 years ago
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  • tmap, tidycensus, and choropleth maps for places (cities)

    Saul G Alamilla
    Saul G Alamilla

    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…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: Requesting information on race/ethnicity percentage by zip code

    Diana Lavery
    Diana Lavery

    Hi, 

    If you have a specific zip code in mind, the easiest thing would be to use data.census.gov.  The exact table you want is most likely B03002: Hispanic or Latino Origin by Race, which gives you estimates for non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic Black, .…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: Calculate MOE on aggregate percentages

    Joanna
    Joanna
    I read through most of this appendix prior to publishing my question. This talks about counts, not proportions. When it talks about proportions it talks about "derived" proportions. The proportions I have I did not derive, they were given, thus I don…
    • over 7 years ago
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  • Lampe.pdf

    Mark Mather
    Mark Mather
    • Lampe.pdf
    • over 2 years ago
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  • Comparing estimates across years for PUMS data

    bsurratt
    bsurratt

    Hello, I am a 1st year demography graduate student.  I do not have a strong background in statistics, but I am doing my best to learn.

    I am looking for a method of comparing estimates across years for statistical significance for a statistic derived from…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • EEO tabulation vs. ACS tabulation for Race & Ethnicity - Educational Attainment

    Nicole Rodriguez
    Nicole Rodriguez

    Table 1 clearly reports the count Hispanic or Latino as a separate category from Not Hispanic or Latino by race. For that reason, I feel confident that the numbers I am reporting for those categories are accurate. However, citing the source as EEO_2006_2010…

    • over 4 years ago
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  • RE: PUMS Allocation Data

    Stas Kolenikov
    Stas Kolenikov

    Multigenerational household (https://usa.ipums.org/usa-action/variables/MULTGEN) is a derived variable -- everything is taken from the `relate` variable (https://usa.ipums.org/usa-action/variables/RELATE). Census Bureau fully resolves it, and that's why…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • Announcement: CAPS 2020 is (finally) available at MCDC

    Glenn Rice
    Glenn Rice

    Just a quick note to those here that might not be on our mailing list. 

    MCDC is pleased to announce the launch of the newest version of our popular CAPS (Circular Area Profiles) applications.

    CAPS 2020 (https://mcdc.missouri.edu/applications/caps2020.…

    • over 2 years ago
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