I am working on a project where I need to derive numbers of children aged three and four by state in different years. For this project, I am using CPS ASEC data. I first calculated the sums of children aged three and four in years 1990, 1991, and 1992 by first identifying the children using the AGE …

The short answer is that the weights in the CPS are not constructed to ensure that every age-state combination sums to a specified population control. The CPS technical documentation gives much more detail on this. See page 10-3 “Ratio Estimation” in this technical paper: https://cps.ipums.org/cps/…

Calculating Numbers of Young Children by State using ASEC Weights

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Johannes_Fleck March 8, 2021, 10:31pm 5

I just asked a related question. Unfortunately, I need some ASEC variables so I cannot switch to the basic monthly. Thanks a lot for helping with this.

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Calculating Numbers of Young Children by State using ASEC Weights

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