The synthetic population was generated from the 2010-2014 ACS PUMS housing and person files. United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. (2017-03-06). American Community Survey 2010-2014 ACS 5-Year PUMS File [Data set]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium of Political and Social Research [distributor]. http://doi.org/10.3886/E100486V1 Outputs There are 17 housing files - repHus0.csv, repHus1.csv, ... repHus16.csv and 32 person files - rep_recode_ACSpus0.csv, rep_recode_ACSpus1.csv, ... rep_recode_ACSpus31.csv. Files are split to be roughly equal in size. The files contain data for the entire country. Files are not split along any demographic characteristic. The person files and housing files must be concatenated to form a complete person file and a complete housing file, respectively. If desired, person and housing records should be merged on 'id'. Variable description is below. Data Dictionary See [2010-2014 ACS PUMS data dictionary](http://doi.org/10.3886/E100486V1). All variables from the ACS PUMS housing files are present in the synthetic housing files and all variables from the ACS PUMS person files are present in the synthetic person files. Variables have not been modified in any way. Theoretically, variables like `person weight` no longer have any use in the synthetic population. See README.md for more details.

This work is supported under Grant G-2015-13903 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on "The Economics of Socially-Efficient Privacy and Confidentiality Management for Statistical Agencies" (PI: John M. Abowd, https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/labor-dynamics-institute/research/project-19)