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Complex Analysis Plan for PUMS using SPSS?

John J. Green

Does anyone have recommendations for setting up a complex analysis plan in SPSS for analyzing ACS PUMS data? I am trying to help a group of master-level graduate students analyze 2014 5-year ACS PUMS data, and they need to use SPSS, given that is what…
- over 9 years ago
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RE: Release date for 1 yr 2013 ACS in AFF?

Mark Mather

Here is the Census Bureau's planned release schedule for the CPS and ACS data this fall:

Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015 (No embargo)

National 2014 income, poverty and health insurance coverage statistics: Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and…
- over 9 years ago
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RE: Area Median Income Data

John Grumbine

I would encourage you not to give up too quickly. As Cliff pointed out, it isn't trivial to do this, but neither is it so difficult that it isn't worth trying (depending on how much you want the data). To demonstrate, I created & uploaded a tabulation…
- over 8 years ago
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RE: How useful are the 5-year Estimates, really?

Joshua Ellis

Thank you for responding!

I used second link as a guide before I posted my question, but I never came across the Appendix pdf, so thanks for this.

On the page I used, it says the 5-Year Estimates are best used for when "[p]recision is more important…

over 5 years ago

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Serious Threat to 2020 Census from Trump's DOJ

Andrew Beveridge

There is a Propublica Story Indicating that the Trump DOJ is demanding the Citizenship be put on the 2020 Census (it is on the ACS). This could have dire consequences for the 2020 Census

www.propublica.org/.../trump-justice-department-pushes-for-citizenship…

over 7 years ago

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Family Structure and Income

Todd Sears

I am working with a colleague to evaluate the median family income using PUMS data (in this case 2007-2011 5-year data that combines personal and household files based on serialno) and have run into a question about family structure versus household structure…

over 10 years ago

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RE: Proc surveymeans - is domain statement needed for subpop analysis?

Stas Kolenikov

You got lucky this time, but this may not happen every time.

One imminent danger is that by restricting the sample with WHERE you may end up with the singleton strata with one PSU remaining. Depending on how the jackknife procedure is implemented, SAS…

over 10 years ago

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Help with MDAT Pums

mike1281

I am trying to gather data for a project for work and I am getting what I think is an error code. I get ??? for values in the cell. Any help would be appreciated. The variables are below

Universe: selected geographies: Arlington County (North) PU..., Arlington…

over 5 years ago

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Excel procedure to calculate SE for Excel pivot table

tmurata

I would like to share an Excel procedure that can be used in conjunction with Excel pivot table to calculate SE for ACS PUMAs data using replicate weights. This procedure works on a pivot table on the active worksheet. This procedure is written for person…

over 11 years ago

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