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Small area estimation and the Census Supplemental Poverty Measure

  • 1.  Small area estimation and the Census Supplemental Poverty Measure

    Posted 11-19-2023 04:02 PM

    Dear All,

    I am continuing to work on my small area estimation package.

    The package takes PUMS data along with tract and blockgroup tables and produces "synthetic" PUMS data for tracts and blockgroups.

    The package uses "normal" PUMS data for a PUMA and merges it with the Supplemental Poverty PUMS files located here:

    https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/time-series/demo/supplemental-poverty-measure/acs-research-files.html

    The Supplemental Poverty Measure files have some interesting additional variables. For example the amount of the household WIC support (Women, Infants & Children Supplemental Nutritional Program.)

    I have posted .RData (R's native data file format) on the dorerfoundation.org website on the "Software" page. For less experienced R users there can be difficulties processing the SAS sas7bdat files on the Census download page listed above.

    I'm making good progress on cleaning up the package and posting the source code on GitHub but is will be a couple of weeks before I have all of the package uploaded. I will also port the package to Windows.

    Dave Dorer



  • 2.  RE: Small area estimation and the Census Supplemental Poverty Measure

    Posted 11-20-2023 11:05 AM

    Thanks for doing this Dave. I look forward to seeing what you came up with.