/tags/census/ Recent content in Census on Kailas Venkitasubramanian Hugo en Sun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/posts/2024-05-12-analyzing-census-pums-data-with-tidycensus/ Sun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/posts/2024-05-12-analyzing-census-pums-data-with-tidycensus/ <p>If you&rsquo;ve spent any time working with Census data, you know the drill: pull a pre-aggregated table, get median household income by county, move on. It works, and for a lot of questions, it&rsquo;s exactly what you need. But sometimes the published tables just don&rsquo;t cut it. What if you want to look at wage distributions for workers with specific educational credentials? Or model individual-level outcomes rather than tract-level averages? That&rsquo;s where PUMS comes in — and once you start using it, it&rsquo;s hard to go back.</p>