Hello IPUMS, I’m trying to replicate estimates from ACS Table B19126 for CA using the 2014-2018 sample, specifically looking at median family income for male and female householders with no spouse present with own children under 18 years of age. My estimates are outside the table’s margins of error…

We generally do not expect to exactly replicate official statistics with public use microdata for the ACS. This is because the public use microdata uses a slightly different sample than what is used to generate “official” statistics. You can read more about this detail on this page . Although the es…

Hi Matthew. Thanks so much for your thoughtful and helpful message. You were right. I changed my command to the following: egen serialfam = concat(sample serial famunit), format(“%15.0g”) With no other changes to this code, this produces estimates within the margin of error. Again, thanks so muc…

Hi, I’m also trying to recreate B19126 using PUMS and got pretty close for 2019-2023, but earlier years aren’t matching up within MOE. Curious how you handled this, any insight would be helpful!

Median Family Income

USA

Ivan_Strahof July 30, 2025, 6:10pm 5

Just to let others with similar issues be able to follow along, I replied to your question in your original post.

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Median Family Income

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