Household serial numbers for 2018 PUMS API

[walkerke]

I know that the PUMS API is not "official" yet; however I did notice that Census is starting to advertise the data.census.gov Microdata tool (e.g. http://apdu.org/2020/05/27/new-microdata-access-tool-for-acs-and-cps/), which has the API as one of the output options. Right now, household serial numbers for the 2018 ACS do not come through correctly, e.g. at this example call to the API:

[["SERIALNO","SPORDER","WGTP","PWGTP","AGEP","PUMA","ST"],
["*","1","42","43","58","100","50"],
["*","4","43","16","14","200","50"],
["*","3","43","37","15","200","50"],
["*","2","43","23","42","200","50"],
["*","1","43","43","49","200","50"],
["*","2","58","34","10","300","50"],
...

It would be fantastic to get household serial numbers to come through the API for 2018 correctly as this would enable use of replicate weights, appropriate variance estimation in modeling, etc. I haven't noticed this issue for earlier years. Thanks for all your hard work on this, I appreciate it!

[walkerke]

Thank you for fixing this! We've already implemented it in tidycensus.

[loganpowell]

Glad to hear it! Happy 4th to you and yours :)