Create SOC Employment Weights from PUMS Microdata

Converts American Community Survey (ACS) PUMS microdata with occupation codes into SOC-level employment weights. (CPS microdata uses different weights and reference periods; see onet_weight_panel_pums() for the replicate-weight-aware successor when supplying appropriate occupation and weight columns.) Use this after downloading PUMS data with packages such as tidycensus or ipumsr.

Usage

onet_pums_employment_weights(pums, socp = "SOCP", weight = "PWGTP")

Arguments

pums

A data frame containing individual-level occupation records.

socp

Name of the occupation-code column. ACS PUMS commonly uses "SOCP".

weight

Optional name of the person-weight column. If NULL, each row receives weight 1. ACS PUMS commonly uses "PWGTP".

Value

A tibble with soc_code, employment, and records.

Details

Lifecycle

This helper is soft-deprecated in favor of onet_weight_panel_pums(), which keeps source and reference taxonomies explicit.

Examples

pums <- tibble::tibble(
  SOCP = c("151252", "151252", "291141"),
  PWGTP = c(120, 80, 200)
)

suppressWarnings(onet_pums_employment_weights(pums))
#> # A tibble: 2 × 3
#>   soc_code employment records
#>   <chr>         <dbl>   <int>
#> 1 15-1252         200       2
#> 2 29-1141         200       1