Hi,
I am planning a course on Working with Data on a ship so internet access is unreliable. I want to download the entire 2024 ASEC (March CPS) and then I could make smaller datasets for student use.
I tried various searches on this forum and the closest I got was Estimating Storage Requirements for Complete IPUMS Database
ChatGPT is also no help. It wants me to sit there and add variables to the cart one at a time. There has to be a better way?
The cpsmar24.pdf says there are 144,625 records (which I confirmed by downloading Age). I then searched for “Values:” and got 1.050 (from pp 6A-1 to 6C-70) so that is how many variables there are. (I also counted the lines in section G, but got only 1,018 so that is inconsistent.)
Excel can easily hold 150K x 1K so it seems doable. Can a helpful IPUMS expert show me an easy way to download the entire 2024 ASEC?
Thank you (for any help you can give me and thanks to everyone at IPUMS!)
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