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Thank you so much. Such a better approach! This way the possibility space for the median is continuous, not just the midpoint values. Of course after I posted this question, I found this document from the California Dept of Finance that goes over this same method: https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/u ...

Hello, A question I get from time to time is, how to calculate/estimate/approximate the median (age/income/home value/monthly rent/etc.) when grouping together a few different census tracts. I want to have a better answer for them than, "do it using PUMS" because often they're really just looking ...

Hello, A Monday puzzle here: I am using table B08201 to look at vehicle availability. The first estimate is total households, and the second estimate is households with no vehicle. Thanks to the worked examples in the ACS handbooks, I'm able to compute the percentage & associated MOE of households ...

Hi Anasua, Here you go: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/microdata/access.html . The FTP site option might be the best match in terms of similarity to 2019 and 2020. -Diana

Hi Sarah, yes, I agree with Stas. The best way to answer this question is working with the actual dataset. I know ipums is great, but I have more familiarity with the regular PUMS dataset from census.gov (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/microdata.html). They have example SAS code, which I've ...