List of Contributions

I tried to reproduce collapsing the 42 languages in table B16001 into the collapsed 12 languages in table C16001 and failed. After deep diving in the documentation, I found the cause. The 42 and 4 language table that came with the recent detailed language release lists Telugu, Tamil and other Dravidian ...

I found at 2023 Comparison Guidance on comparing household and family type between ACS 2023 and the Census 2020 2023 ACS with 2020 Census Use caution. Both the ACS and the 2020 Census used a joint age, sex, and relationship edit. However, the ACS edit also incorporated marital status information ...

Beth, I sent you a spreadsheet with a comparison of - Household type by presence of children, comparing ACS table B11012 (2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023) with DHC table P20, and - Family type by presence and age of children, comparing ACS table B11003 (2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023) with DHC ...

Mark, that is an interesting finding, but I agree that is not likely an explanation of the differences here. According to the DHC there were 6.6 million single female households with own children and the ACS shows a pretty consistent count of 6.25 million.

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 be beyond the sampling error. We than compared ...