Use microdata to fit models on individual-level data instead of modeling It can, for instance, allow you to create customĮstimates that aren’t available in pre-aggregated tables. Using PUMS data instead of the published tables can be a very For theĪmerican Community Survey, this data is called the Public Row per state from a table, we can get one row per respondent. Summary and detail tables the Census publishes. Is the individual-level responses to the ACS that is used to create the Microdata from the American Community Survey.
The Census aggregates and publishes in tabular form.įor many purposes, these pre-aggregated tables have enough There are thousands of individual variables that Many people live in a particular county or what the median household
Other words, the data we get by executing get_acs() hasīeen summarized by the Census Bureau so that we are able to learn how Most of the data available through tidycensus and the Census API isĪggregated to certain geographic levels (tract, county, state, etc.).
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