US Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey – Disaster Displacement

Link to code

Authors/Creators/ Team Members: Ther W. Aung, Ashwini R. Sehgal

Specific purpose of code: The purpose of this code is to analyze the questions regarding displacement due to disasters in US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. The code is applied to a single dataset.

General Application: This code is an example of analyzing nationally-representative survey data using weights and replicate weights.

How does or could this code allow researchers to assess research questions related to aging or life course?: This code could be used or applied to analyze nationally-representative survey data, which tend to have age as a variable and may either span the entire population or target a particular demographic. The Household Pulse Survey has participants aged 18 and above, with age top-coded at 88 (age is calculated by subtracting year of birth from the survey year).

Data sets used:

US Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey
Publicly available via the US Census Bureau
Link to data: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/household-pulse-survey/data/datasets.html

Coding Language: Stata

Tools and Packages used: svyset, svy

Output(s): Dataset, tables, multivariate covariates of displacement and collinearity assessment

Spatial extent: US

Temporal extent: 2022-2023

Published papers that use this code: Aung, T. W., & Sehgal, A. R. (2025). Prevalence, Correlates, and Impacts of Displacement Because of Natural Disasters in the United States From 2022 to 2023. American Journal of Public Health, 115(1), 55–65. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307854