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ACS PUMS Data for Louisville

Source: R/lou_vax_data.R
lou_pums_microdata.Rd

Person-level microdata from the American Community Survey (ACS) 2015-2019 public-use microdata sample (PUMS) data for Louisville, KY. This microdata sample represents all adults (persons aged 18 or over) in Louisville, KY.

These data include replicate weights to use for variance estimation.

Usage

data(lou_pums_microdata)

Format

A data frame with 80 rows and 85 variables

  • UNIQUE_ID: Unique identifier for records

  • AGE: Age in years (copied from the AGEP variable in the ACS microdata)

  • RACE_ETHNICITY: Race and Hispanic/Latino ethnicity derived from RAC1P and HISP variables of ACS microdata and collapsed to a smaller number of categories.

  • SEX: Male or Female

  • EDUC_ATTAINMENT: Highest level of education attained ('Less than high school' or 'High school or beyond') derived from SCHL variable in ACS microdata and collapsed to a smaller number of categories.

  • PWGTP: Weights for the full-sample

  • PWGTP1-PWGTP80: 80 columns of replicate weights created using the Successive Differences Replication (SDR) method.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
data(lou_pums_microdata)

# Prepare the data for analysis with the survey package
  library(survey)

  lou_pums_rep_design <- survey::svrepdesign(
    data = lou_pums_microdata,
    variables = ~ UNIQUE_ID + AGE + SEX + RACE_ETHNICITY + EDUC_ATTAINMENT,
    weights = ~ PWGTP, repweights = "PWGTP\\d{1,2}",
    type = "successive-difference",
    mse = TRUE
  )

# Estimate population proportions
  svymean(~ SEX, design = lou_pums_rep_design)
}