Analyze Online: Confidence interval for Weighted N

The online guide notes that confidence intervals using the SDA system are only available for percentages. As you state, adding percentages by migration category across years doesn’t make much sense since you’re analyzing net migration over time. For this reason, you’ll want to generate percentages across rows and calculate confidence intervals from there. Alternatively, you can calculate your own confidence intervals by downloading an extract with the above samples and variables directly from IPUMS USA.