DSDR KB:
Reference: Clarification Questions
- What does data defined person mean? It is an item in the microdata for 2000.
- The 2007 ACS data were released today. How long will it take for us to get the microdata?
- I am trying to get a sense of the American Community Survey (ACS). It is harder than I would have thought. Am I correct in thinking that annually they survey approximately 3,000K households per year? Are the samples independent of each other - e.g., 2005 and 2006? Finally, they do not seem to ask about country of birth. This seems odd although you might be able to make an estimate with ancestry and citizenship.
- I am generating some age-specific counts for various neighborhoods to compare with data in the Research Data Center (RDC). However, I am having trouble getting these counts to agree with what previous workers on this project have generated. Can you take a look at my numbers vs the project counts for our neighborhoods?
- I am using microdata from the 2000 Census of Population and Housing. I have found some families with a code of "0" on family income. Is this an error on the part of the Census Bureau? If not, what is the explanation?
- Do you know if the 1960 census asks the same ‘where did you live 5 years ago’ question that was asked in 1970-2000?
- I downloaded a US Census Extract recently and have been running some descriptive statistics. In terms of race, Brazilian Immigrants mostly identify as white, "some other race" and "two or more races". I would like to find out how they classified in the latter 2 categories. Is there any way I can do this? Also, if it is just a matter of creating an extract with specific variables (e.g. "OTHER", NUMRACE), would it be possible to add these variables to my existing dataset? Or would I need to do a completely new data extract with all of the variables?
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