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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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  • Lampe.pdf

    Mark Mather
    Mark Mather
    • Lampe.pdf
    • over 2 years ago
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    • 2023 ACS Conference Files
  • 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: 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 6 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 1 year ago
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  • RE: Interpolation for median earnings

    Justin Keller
    Justin Keller

    7455.median_with_linear_interpolation.docx8712.median_with_linear_interpolation.txt

     

     

     

    Hello-

    Attached are a .txt and Word version that were provided by some colleagues here at Census. It doesn't look like I can upload the SAS file directly.

    Just…

    • over 8 years ago
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  • RE: Forecasting race/ethnicity proportions at city scale

    Rebecca Tippett
    Rebecca Tippett

    Hey David:

    Interesting question! There are a few different techniques you could try -- one would be some sort of linear-based forecast model to predict total population (from pop estimates) and ACS-derived proportions using single-year data (for city…

    • over 4 years ago
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  • RE: census block group has zero occupied housing units but positive population

    Andrew Beveridge
    Andrew Beveridge

    They have set up a separate GQ Count Review for the 2020.  Apparently some of the GQs were put in nearby wrong blocks.  One of the problems, however, is that Differential Privacy was applied to the Block Groups, so in NY State after the prisoner relocations…

    • over 3 years ago
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