# Does IPUMS create data requested by a user?

**URL:** <https://forum.ipums.org/t/does-ipums-create-data-requested-by-a-user/2618>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [October 17, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/does-ipums-create-data-requested-by-a-user/2618 "2018-10-17T23:08:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![skanowitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@skanowitz](https://forum.ipums.org/u/skanowitz)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/does-ipums-create-data-requested-by-a-user/2618/1 "2018-10-17T23:08:00Z")

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The Tuberculosis Control Branch of the California Department of Public Health would like to use Singrace in its use of 2015 and 2016 ACS data. Does IPUMS create user-defined variables? If so is there a fee? If so what would be turn around time?

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**Author:** ![JeffBloem](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.ipums.org/jeffbloem/32/40_2.png) [@JeffBloem](https://forum.ipums.org/u/JeffBloem)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/does-ipums-create-data-requested-by-a-user/2618/2 "2018-10-18T15:22:00Z")

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It sounds like you are referring to the variable [RACESING](https://cps.ipums.org/cps-action/variables/group). At the present time, this variable is not available for the 2015 and 2016 ACS samples. We do hope to make this variable available in the future, but unfortunately I don’t have an accurate forecast of this timeline.