topic Re: Getting the American Community Survey Data into SAS in SAS Programming

Getting the American Community Survey Data into SAS

SAShole — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 22:11:35 GMT

Are there any resources out there on getting and querying the American Community Survey Data? I've tried following the instructions provided by the Census to run the macro without luck.

Thanks,

Re: Getting the American Community Survey Data into SAS

Reeza — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 04:44:09 GMT

The documentation and code from the survey documentation has been all I've ever used. However, you can search lexjansen.com to see if others have published more code for complex tasks.

@SAShole wrote:

Are there any resources out there on getting and querying the American Community Survey Data? I've tried following the instructions provided by the Census to run the macro without luck.

Thanks,

Re: Getting the American Community Survey Data into SAS

SuzanneDorinski — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 21:26:00 GMT

Census offered a webinar a couple of weeks ago about using ACS PUMS files. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/guidance/training-presentations/acs-intro-pums.html has links for the recording, slides, and transcript.

The webinar mentioned the American Community Survey Data Users Group. They have a forum for questions about using the files. See https://acsdatacommunity.prb.org/acs-data-products--resources/acs-public-use-microdata-samples-pums/.