My interpretation of the literature provided is they don't take the average of monthly percents for single year or multiyear estimates, nor do they take the average of yearly percents for multiyear estimates. Doing so would give a different (and incorrect…
Thanks, Cliff. Based on your note about ACS dollars being adjusted to the last month in the period, I looked into this a bit more to see how multi-year estimates are created. I found this Census resource (page 22) which explains how multiyear estimates…
Taylor,
I think you're referring to geog units of the home addresses of ACS respondents? The ACS Design and Methodology report has only 1 sentence that I could find: "The first step is to update the current residence geography for 2016-2020 data to…
There are the following statements in the document https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/acs/acs_general_handbook_2018.pdf:
"TIP: As shown in Figure 3.1, consecutive 5-year estimatescontain 4 years of overlapping coverage…
We're trying to better understand estimate reliability/stability for 5-year estimates for sub-county geographies (i.e. places, county subdivisions, and tracts). We noticed that the ACS weighting methodology has minimum population thresholds for the weighting…