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Jon Rothbaum

@jlrothbaum.bsky.social

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Economist, U.S. Census Bureau, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Ecuador (All opinions are mine). jrothbaum.github.io

Jon Rothbaum @jlrothbaum.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

To be useful in my government-shutdown time off, I've worked on public-use analogs to tools that have been useful at work. jrothbaum.github.io/survey_kit/ - a package for complex survey data, handling nonrespresentative samples in surveys/polls, properly handling missing data, etc.

jrothbaum.github.io

Survey-Kit

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Jon Rothbaum @jlrothbaum.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

New research from the NEWS project on income and poverty from 2016-2021 Using survey, census, admin and commercial data, we show that survey estimates understate income and overstate poverty. Release at www.census.gov/data/experim..., interactive plots at jrothbaum.github.io/news.html

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Jon Rothbaum @jlrothbaum.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

If you use Stata and parquet files, I developed a stata plugin that could help: ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode.... You can read/write parquet files directly from stata (Caveat: tested on windows and linux, but not mac)

ideas.repec.org

PQ: Stata module to read, write, and manage Parquet files in

pq provides commands for working with Apache Parquet files in Stata. Parquet is a columnar storage file format designed to efficiently store and process large datasets. This package allows Stata users

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Jon Rothbaum @jlrothbaum.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

*new research from NEWS project* Using linked survey, census, admin and commercial data, we aim to produce the best estimates of income & poverty in the US. We find disposable median hhld income is 7.1% higher and SPM poverty is 2.4pp lower than 2018 survey-based estimates. (1/n)

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