When I pull unformatted data from 2012 ACS into Excel, about every 50 lines or so is what looks like bad data, where it starts 2012 (year) 0 (datanum) and then a serial number, followed by only zeros for the rest of the variable. Are these bad responses that should be discarded, or should I wait for formatted data to come through? I’ve never had this problem before, but I’ve only used formatted data.
I’m trying to use the unformatted .dat files because I’ve been waiting for three days and haven’t gotten anything yet, and I need the numbers soon.