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  • RE: Defining Hispanic

    Joe Germuska
    Joe Germuska
    If a person checks any box but "no" then they are counted as Hispanic. There are other tables in the ACS which report on specific origin, specifically B03001 and C03001.

    It would be a survey completion error if someone checked "No, not of hispanic…
    • over 11 years ago
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  • Getting Started

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  • Jensen.pdf

    Mark Mather
    Mark Mather
    • Jensen.pdf
    • over 2 years ago
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    • 2023 ACS Conference Files
  • Vernon.pdf

    Mark Mather
    Mark Mather
    • Vernon.pdf
    • over 2 years ago
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    • 2023 ACS Conference Files
  • RE: Unusual Discrepancy between One and Five year Results

    David Dorer
    David Dorer

    Dear Cliff,

    I've dug into this some more.  I missed question 3 on the ACS form: When did PERSON 1 (listed on page 2) move into
    this house, apartment, or mobile home?   I took the vintage 2021 B25038 1 year and 5 year tables and added together the corresponding…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: ZCTA-level population estimates for 12-15 year-olds

    David Drozd
    David Drozd

    To get more specific with the data, you'll have to make a tradeoff on another item. Beyond realizing that certain zip codes are not going to have many people of certain races/ethnicities and that some zips are just low populated overall, you're going…

    • over 4 years ago
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    • Forum
  • Identifying small property landlords in PUMS

    swalk3r
    swalk3r

    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…

    • over 4 years ago
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  • Units in Structure

    Larry Mugler
    Larry Mugler

    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…

    • over 8 years ago
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  • RE: Calculating median earnings in PUMS

    Stas Kolenikov
    Stas Kolenikov
    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…
    • over 11 years ago
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