ACS Data Users Group

I am working on a project that I need to determine number of owner/renter households by race and income using PUMS data. I noticed in 2021 HHLDRRAC1P (race of the householder variable) was added to the PUMS housing file. I need to work with 2019 PUMS data. I am not sure how to create a "householder race" variable using persons and housing files. Did anyone work with a task like this?

Thank you

Hulya Arik

I think that the Householder is the SPORDER==1 person. You can then subset the PUMS file on SPORDER==1 and then I think all the person variables will apply to the Householder alone. To check that the subset file of SPORDER==1 works correctly match on SERIALNO to the Household file (if you use the FTP site) You should have a 1:1 match. There will probably be some issue but give it a try. Note be careful to handle vacant households in the Household file. You may have to do something special for group quarters records as well.

Best,

Dave Dorer

Thank you for the response.

I actually ended up using "relshipp" variable and filtering only for 20. SPORDER could also worked, but when I checked I noticed that SPORDER == 1 is still including RELSHIPP == 37 and 38, which are individuals in group quarters.

Since I was using owner households with a mortgage, I did not have an issue with vacant units.

Thank you

Hulya