We were asked to create a timeline of the local number of households with children by household type. We extracted data from past Censuses, Census 2020 and recent 1-year ACS. We noticed some differences between the ACS and the DHC counts that seemed to…
Hi,
I'm looking to cross tabulate a few different variables with a dichotomous poverty variable (below threshold or not) in the 1-year PUMS. I derived the poverty status variable by recoding the income to poverty ratio. Unfortunately the statistical…
Hi, Mara -- taking a weighted average of block group medians can give you misleading results, because the median depends on the income distributions of the different block groups. If the block group pieces you're combining have roughly symmetrical distributions…
Dear Andy,
The relationship file that I referenced is for the 2020 PUMAs (posted on the census website) but they are not in use yet for the current 2021 PUMS data (I use the API). The relationship file in the post has a lot of PUMAs that do not exist…
I'm working on a R package that will give the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) at the tract level. Eventually I hope to post the package on GItHub. The method uses PUMS data including the SPM PUMS data https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/time-series…