Hello, I am trying to connect individuals in post-2012 IPUMS data to the county-based commuting zone in which they work using the PWPUMA variable. I poked around for a bit on the map of 2010 PWPUMA/MIGPUMAs ( IPUMS USA: 2010 Migration PUMAs ), and I could not find an instance in which a county crosse…

I looked around for something online that would make it easy to crosswalk from the 2010 Migration & PW PUMAs to counties–it definitely seems like something that should exist–but I came up empty. There are crosswalks from PWPUMA to PUMAs and from PUMAs to tracts, and you can use those to produce a co…

I’ll try to address your questions one at a time. First, post-2012 PWPUMA boundaries (via PWPUMA00 ) are effectively tied to county boundaries (see this page for more details). This is why you do not find any cases where the boundaries cross. This detail is not the case for samples prior to 2012. S…

Thanks so much for the helpful information and links! The final PUMA criteria document was something for which I had been looking. I do have a followup on the second point, though. As you suggest, for those PUMAs which relate to the subset of identifiable categories, it seems straightforward enough…

That’s awesome! Thanks so much for this. By the way, is pointing out that this crosswalk should exist a mug-worthy contribution?

Sorry, Robert, we save the mugs for error reports. Even the very best feature requests shall remain mug-less.

Hi, I am working on a project about internal migration in the U.S. using the American Community Survey. As I browsed the data, I found the countyfip and migcounty1 variables, which seem to be very useful for generating county-level migration flows. However, it seems that many of the counties in the…

Is a crosswalk from County to PWPUMA possible?

USA

JonathanSchroeder October 3, 2022, 5:04pm 8

I’ve answered this question (providing the 2000 crosswalks) in Juno’s separate post.

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Is a crosswalk from County to PWPUMA possible?

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