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

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@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.  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. 
 
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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