Alexander, J. Trent; Davern, Michael; Stevenson, Betsey - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2010
We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003 …-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex …-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files differ by as much as 15% from counts in published data tables. Moreover, an …