[These are some notes intended for students in my undergraduate Introduction to Social Demography class, for use in working on their final projects, but I thought they would be of wider interest to others using IPUMS in their teaching.] Many students are interested in doing detailed comparisons of the social and demographic characteristics of specific…
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Using ‘comparison of means’ to calculate proportions at IPUMS-USA
(I wrote this for the students in my undergraduate lecture course Introduction to Social Demography. They are working with IPUMS-USA for a final project. I thought it might be of more general interest to others who are using IPUMS-USA for each.) We often want to calculate the proportion of people with some characteristic according to…