Updated 2020-06-17
Tech and Data has automated the process of reading in and cleaning the Census Pulse Survey Public Use Microdata files that they are releasing each week. We have combine all the available Public Use File across all weeks into one standardized CSV (Public Use File All Weeks.csv
). This dataset will be updated weekly as new Public Use Files are released:
Public Use Files All Weeks.csv
: A compiled CSV of public use files from all available weeks.. The file structure will be very similar to the Census published files, but will have a few new columns appended. Each row represents a respondent from a given week. 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 files below.
Census 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 below data dictionary file
Appended Column Data Dictionary
: The Data Science Team has appended a few columns to the Public Use File. This file contains the descriptions of those appended columns. This file in conjunction with the Census Data Dictionary should allow you to understand what each column means in the Public Use File All Weeks
file
If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected]
Data and Resources
Field | Value |
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Modified | 2022-08-01 |
Release Date | 2020-06-09 |
Identifier | 58f0e1a4-8fec-4918-be37-83741498cb9a |
License | |
Contact Name | Urban Institute |
Contact Email | |
Public Access Level | Public |
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Data Dictionary Files | |
Geographic Level | |
Original Data Source | |
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. |