Tech and Data has automated the process of reading in and cleaning the Census Pulse Survey Public Use microdata files and is making this available to researcher (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/household-pulse-survey.html). Below is a short description of the two files we are making available. This data will be updated weekly as new Public Use Files are relased:
Public Use Files All Weeks: A compiled CSV of public use files from all available weeks. This currently includes data from weeks 1, 2 and 3. The file structure will be very similar to the Census published files, but will have a few new columns appended. Please take careful note of the pweight
column which is the person weight assigned by the Census to each respondent. Any metric you create from the data has to sum across the pweight
column to arrive at the individual level estimates. For additional help understanding what each of the columns in this file represent, please see the Data Dictionary file below.
Data Dictionary: The Data Dictionary as provided by the Census for the latest week in the data. This will be exactly the same as the Census published data dictionary files. Note a couple of the Urban appended columns will not be in the Data Dictionary. For definitions of the appended columns, please see the descriptions of each of the files.
If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected]
Data and Resources
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Modified | 2022-08-01 |
Release Date | 2020-06-09 |
Identifier | 58f0e1a4-8fec-4918-be37-83741498cb9a |
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Contact Name | Urban Institute |
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Public Access Level | Public |
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Data Dictionary Files | |
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Github Repo | |
Citation Requirements | Urban Institute. 2020. Revisions. Accessible from https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/census-pulse-public-use-files-ques.... Data originally sourced from Census Household Pulse Survey, developed at the Urban Institute, and made available under the ODC-BY 1.0 Attribution License. |