populace us The populace built US population : a calibrated synthetic microdataset for PolicyEngine US, built by the populace stack entirely from primary sources — the enhanced CPS appears only as the benchmark this file is scored against, never as a build input. It loads anywhere the enhanced CPS loads (an API compatible alternative population), with its own calibrated weights — and its own strengths and gaps, both documented below. Load it Or grab the H5 directly: How it is built One HDF5 USSingleYearDataset per year. Every layer comes from a primary survey or administrative source: source provides Census CPS ASEC household structure, demographics, incomes, benefits, tenure, hours, occupation flags, health coverage at interview, retirement distributions (DST codes), childcare, prior year income (longitudinal PERIDNUM join) IRS SOI Public Use File 2015 (uprated) tax detail: capital gains, dividends, interest, itemized deduction inputs, QBI/SSTB components, partnership self employment, estates, tuition Fed SCF 2022 wealth: bank/stock/bond assets, net worth, mortgage balance hints Census SIPP tip income for tipped occupations; household vehicles (count and value) CPS ORG hourly wage…
Runs entirely in your browser via DuckDB-Wasm — this dataset's real data file is loaded once, then queried locally. Nothing is sent to a server.
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