26 Aug
2021
26 Aug
'21
2:22 p.m.
Todd:
Thanks for the information. The Census presentation from this past spring was
informational.
I didn’t know that there was a Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) file based on the 2010
Census “short form” data!!! It was released about 2014, and is a 10-percent PUMS file. My
guess is that they’ll produce a similar 10-percent (?) product based on the 2020 Census.
And I assume the 2020 Census PUMS will be based on 2020 Census PUMAs (which have yet to be
defined!)
Interestingly, there are no “replicate weights” in the 2010 Census PUMS.
https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2010/dec/stateside-pums.html
<https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2010/dec/stateside-pums.html>
If I want a complex multi-cross table, like households by tenure by race/ethnicity of
householder by age group of householder by sex of householder, then there will be a PUMS
based on decennial “short form” data. I would probably be happy with this data at the
PUMA, county or state level.
So, as I have always snarked: “We’ll always have PUMS”
Chuck
On Aug 25, 2021, at 5:30 PM, Graham, Todd
<todd.graham(a)metc.state.mn.us> wrote:
Hi Chuck—
RE: QUESTION: When will the 2020 Census Summary File #1 be released?
Census Bureau announced in 2019 that the product formerly known as SF1 would be reduced
-- fewer tables, especially fewer crosstabs -- and that the new collection of tables would
be called Demographic & Housing Characteristics (DHC). I have not seen any news
lately on what the final set of DHC tables will include. It’s possible that this is
*still* unsettled?
I am not surprised that you found nothing on census.gov <http://census.gov/>.
Census execs were earlier promising DHC as a product… but then in 2021 they pivoted to:
make no promises of anything. They scrubbed mentions of DHC off of census.gov
<http://census.gov/>.
(oh. But they didn’t get everything…
https://www2.census.gov/about/partners/cac/nac/meetings/2021-05/presentatio…
<https://www2.census.gov/about/partners/cac/nac/meetings/2021-05/presentation-2020-census-data-products.pdf>
)
WHEN will we see the DHC product? was asked by journalists at the August 12 webcast press
conference – and Census spokespeople would not answer the question.
Hopefully we get DHC product sometime in 2022. Earlier than 2022 seems unlikely because
DAS/Differential Privacy processing is going to add multiple months.
But I would be guessing. Again, If someone has actual intel, point us there!
--TG
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