• Identifying small property landlords in PUMS

    Hi -

    I was looking at this Urban Institute blog post: https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/owners-and-renters-62-million-units-small-buildings-are-particularly-vulnerable-during-pandemic

    I was interested in reproducing it using PUMS data for Cambridge, MA…

  • Reading 2020 Census DHC data into R

    For those of you working on today's release of DHC data from the 2020 Census, here's some R code that will combine the different segments of the DHC summary file and create one dataset with all the tables, with the columns named just like they are in…

  • Units in Structure

    I am preparing a report for Arapahoe County using 2015 and 2010 ACS data. In the "units in structure" table for census tracts, I noted a large number of negative numbers for total housing unit change from 2010 to 2015. Census staff found an error note…

  • RE: Calculating median earnings in PUMS

    Do you have access to statistical software (R, SAS, Stata)? If you do, you would want to download the PUMS data the way you need them (ipums.org, in my opinion, provides the best customizable environment to do this: you can easily select just the variables…

  • RE: Educational attainment data VS CPS ASEC

    Hey Tom, Bernie,

    Thank you both for replying! Particular Tom, for your warm recommendations.

    In regards to the PUMS age universe setting, I double checked on the parameters and it shouldn't have caused any issues. The statistically significant difference…

  • Missing values for replicate weights

     Good morning,

    I am using SAS to generate estimates from pooled 2012-2015 ACS PUMS data. Below is the macro I am using to average the 4 years of replicate weights. Also shown below is the error message indicating that missing values are produced. How have…

  • Query 2015 ACS 5-year estimates for all block groups within a state

    Hi Group,

    We're trying to figure out if we can query 2015 ACS 5-year estimates for all block groups within a state for certain IDs/variables. An example screenshot of what this would look like in American Fact Finder (AFF) is attached. Right now it looks…

  • A Threat to the ACS from the Bureau Itself

    1. Yesterday at the ACS Data Users Conference, the Census Bureau described its plans to replace the American Community Survey (ACS) microdata with “fully synthetic” data over the next three years.
    /2. Details of the methodology have not been…

  • RE: PUMS: Causal Inference and Weight

    Longer answer: there is a lot going on in this question. I personally am not satisfied with the existing answers. The problem is that you have two VASTLY different inferences you need to make:

    1. inference with respect to the pseudo-random assignment…

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