New subject: ACS Household Income by Household size and RScripts

9 Sep 2011

To add to Nancy's comment, it is fairly easy to create Household income x HH size
variable from ACS PUMS. Variables are NP (number of persons in household) and
HINCP(Household income (past 12 months)). 

Gyanesh Lama
East-West Gateway Council of Governments
Department of Research
One Memorial Drive, Ste. 1600
St. Louis, MO 63102

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 >> "Gemignani, Nancy"
&lt;Nancy.Gemignani(a)dof.ca.gov&gt; 09/08/2011 7:44 PM >>> 1.      
Krishnan, you are correct, B19019 is the only table combining income and household size. 
I'm not familiar with "IPF" but you could create a tabulation of household
ranges by household size using the PUMS file for the ACS.    As a side note, Table B19019
is not available in the 5-year ACS.  The 5-year has only B19119, Family income by family
size.   So, you cannot even get table B19019 for places below 20,000 pop.

Nancy Gemignani
California State Census Data Center
Demographic Research Unit
Department of Finance
915 L Street, 8th Floor
Sacramento, CA  95814
(916) 327-0103 ext 2550

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Krishnan Viswanathan
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 4:55 PM
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Subject: [CTPP] ACS Household Income by Household size and R Scripts

This is a two part question:

 1.  AFAIK there is no direct Household income x HH size table available in the ACS. The
only thing that is available is Table B19019 (Median HH income x HH Size). Am i correct?
And the only way to obtain the desired HH Inc x HH size table is via IPF. If others have a
better idea please let me know.
 2.  Has anyone written the R equivalent of the eak_0{n}.sas to read the summary files
available here: http://www2.census.gov/acs2005_2009_5yr/summaryfile/UserTools/? If anyone
has, do you mind sharing with me?
TIA,
Krishnan

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Krishnan Viswanathan
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Tallahassee FL 32311

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