Synthetic population housing and person records for the United States

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) William Sexton, Cornell University; John M. Abowd, Cornell University; Ian M. Schmutte, University of Georgia; Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University

Version:  View help for Version V1

Name File Type Size Last Modified
  housing 04/19/2017 11:09:AM
  person 04/19/2017 05:49:PM

Citation: 

Sexton, William, Abowd, John M., Schmutte, Ian M., and Vilhuber, Lars. Synthetic population housing and person records for the United States: data. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-05-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/E100274V1-110100

To view the citation for the overall project, see http://doi.org/10.3886/E100274V1.

Project Description

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Inputs

The synthetic population was generated from the 2010-2014 ACS PUMS housing and person files.


    United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. (2017-03-06).
    American Community Survey 2010-2014 ACS 5-Year PUMS File [Data set].
    Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium of Political and Social
    Research [distributor]. http://doi.org/10.3886/E100486V1

Persistent URL:  http://doi.org/10.3886/E100486V1

Funding support

This work is supported under  Grant G-2015-13903 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on "[The Economics of Socially-Efficient Privacy and Confidentiality Management for Statistical Agencies](https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/labor-dynamics-institute/research/project-19)" (PI: John M. Abowd)

Outputs

There are 17 housing files (data/housing)
- repHus0.csv, repHus1.csv, ... repHus16.csv
and 32 person files (data/person)
- rep_recode_ACSpus0.csv, rep_recode_ACSpus1.csv, ... rep_recode_ACSpus31.csv.

Files are split to be roughly equal in size. The files contain data for the entire country. Files are not split along any demographic characteristic. The person files and housing files must be concatenated to form a complete person file and a complete housing file, respectively.

Programs

Programs that generated this release can be found at https://github.com/labordynamicsinstitute/SynUSpopulation/releases/tag/v201703-beta and http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.556424

Additional information

For more information, see README.md



Scope of Project


Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. (2017-03-06).
    American Community Survey 2010-2014 ACS 5-Year PUMS File [Data set].
    Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium of Political and Social
    Research [distributor]. http://doi.org/10.3886/E100486V1

Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Households, Persons
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit United States

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V1 [2017-05-24]

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