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I'd like a dataset which maps (zip code, age, single) to a distribution of incomes. E.g. (60642, 18, single) is likely <$20k income. Ideally it would return a b
by shawn 8y ago
I'd like a dataset which maps (zip code, age, single) to a distribution of incomes. E.g. (60642, 18, single) is likely <$20k income. Ideally it would return a big list of (age, zip code, income, year, single) entries.
Is it possible to find this data using Google's dataset search? If not, making an easier frontend for it might be one way to add novelty.
It's also hard to figure out whether the data exists or whether your search terms are poor.
- gervase 8y agoI would also agree that in general, there is certainly room to grow in dataset discovery. However, that will require a drastic improvement in the metadata associated with many (most?) datasets, which I think is probably a large contributor to discovery difficulty. Regarding your data, at an individual level, it will be very difficult to find that information publicly available, for the simple reason that the organizations that have that information (US Census, IRS) are under extremely strict privacy-preservation requirements whose goal is to prevent exactly these types of linkages. You could instead try an analysis on aggregated data, i.e. correlations between (zip, average age, average household size) and (zip, average income) tuples. That data is available: [0, 1] [0]: https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch/search?query=us%20income&docid=7wVMbp6OGT6LFlyWAAAAAA%3D%3D https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch/search?query=us%20i... [1]: https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch/search?query=us%20census%20data&docid=LzZ6gQGw8DFk%2BliqAAAAAA%3D%3D https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch/search?query=us%20c...
- spydum 8y agoThis already exists.. look at claritas: https://claritas360.claritas.com/mybestsegments/#zipLookup https://claritas360.claritas.com/mybestsegments/#zipLookup
- shawn 8y agoThis is magical. How'd you find out about this?
- conception 8y agoThe dataset you are looking for is a pretty common marketing research dataset which may help your Google queries.
- jonas21 8y agoThe data you're looking for (as well as dozens of other interesting data fields) is available from the Census Bureau: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/guidance/subjects.html https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/guidance/subject... It's updated annually and you can get data all the way down to the census tract level (or maybe even individual blocks, I don't remember). It's a really great resource. You can grab the data as CSV here: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2016/ https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/20... They have a web UI too.