Updated 2020-10-23
Note: This entry includes the data for phase 2 of the Household Pulse Survey which began on August 19, 2020, and will collect data in two-week intervals through October 26, 2020. This entry will be updated biweekly until the final data release on November 18, 2020. The first phase of the Household Pulse Survey ran from April 23 to July 21, 2020. The phase 1 data can be accessed here.
The Urban Institute has automated the process of reading in and cleaning the Household Pulse Survey Public Use Microdata files. We have combined the available public use files across all weeks into one standardized CSV (Public Use File All Weeks Phase.csv
) and generated a rolling two week summary file (Pulse Metrics Phase 2.csv
). that powers the Tracking COVID-19’s Effects by Race and Ethnicity: Phase 2 feature. These datasets will be updated biweekly as new public use files are released through the final release on November 18, 2020. Below are descriptions of all available files. To see the code for how we generated these data files, please visit our Github repo.
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Public Use Files All Weeks Phase 2.csv
: A compiled CSV of public use files from all available weeks.. The file structure will be very similar to the Census Bureau’s published files but will have a few new columns appended. Each row represents a respondent from a given two-week release. Please carefully note thepweight
column which is the person weight assigned by the Census Bureau to each respondent. Any metric you create from the data has to sum across thepweight
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. -
PUF Census Data Dictionary.
: The data dictionary as provided by the Census Bureau for the latest week in the data. This will be exactly the same as the Census Bureau's 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 PUF Urban Data Dictionary file -
PUF Urban Data Dictionary Phase 2
: Urban has appended a few columns to the publicly available public use file. This file contains the descriptions of those appended columns. This file in conjunction with the PUF Census Data Dictionary should allow you to understand what each column means in thePublic Use File All Weeks
file. -
Pulse Metrics Phase 2
: This is a summary file of a few selected metrics from the Household Pulse Survey. Each row in this file represents a indicator/geography/week/race combination. For more information on what each of the columns in this file represent, see thePulse Metrics Phase 2 Data Dictionary
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Pulse Metrics Phase 2 Data Dictionary
: The data dictionary for the abovePulse Metrics Phase 2
dataset.
If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected]
Data and Resources
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Modified | 2023-03-21 |
Release Date | 2020-10-23 |
Identifier | 2d097ade-ca6c-44a0-9980-a4c10be90d5c |
License | |
Contact Name | Urban Institute |
Contact Email | |
Public Access Level | Public |
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Urban Publications | |
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 [node:field_original_data_source], developed at the Urban Institute, and made available under the ODC-BY 1.0 Attribution License. |