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Error code:   StreamingRowsError
Exception:    ArrowInvalid
Message:      Mismatching child array lengths
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 147, in get_rows_or_raise
                  return get_rows(
                      dataset=dataset,
                  ...<4 lines>...
                      column_names=column_names,
                  )
                File "/src/libs/libcommon/src/libcommon/utils.py", line 272, in decorator
                  return func(*args, **kwargs)
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 127, in get_rows
                  rows_plus_one = list(itertools.islice(safe_iter(ds, dataset=dataset), rows_max_number + 1))
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 483, in safe_iter
                  yield from ds.decode(False) if ds.features else ds
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2840, in __iter__
                  for key, example in ex_iterable:
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2373, in __iter__
                  for key, pa_table in self._iter_arrow():
                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2398, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in self.ex_iterable._iter_arrow():
                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 536, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in iterator:
                                       ^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 419, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in self.generate_tables_fn(**gen_kwags):
                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/hdf5/hdf5.py", line 83, in _generate_tables
                  pa_table = _recursive_load_arrays(h5, self.info.features, start, end)
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/hdf5/hdf5.py", line 267, in _recursive_load_arrays
                  arr = _recursive_load_arrays(obj, features[path], start, end)
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/hdf5/hdf5.py", line 288, in _recursive_load_arrays
                  sarr = pa.StructArray.from_arrays(values, names=keys)
                File "pyarrow/array.pxi", line 4304, in pyarrow.lib.StructArray.from_arrays
                File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 155, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
                File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 92, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
                  raise convert_status(status)
              pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: Mismatching child array lengths

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Microcosm US build sources

Processed Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) files that the PolicyEngine Microcosm US build reads as inputs to its base stage (tools/build_us_puf_support_base.py --asec-h5 YEAR=PATH in PolicyEngine/microcosm).

They are mirrored here unchanged so that the build's inputs do not exist on one machine only. Microcosm pins each file by repository revision, SHA-256 and size, and refuses a file whose digest differs.

Files

File Survey year (income year) Bytes SHA-256 Households Persons
census_cps_2024.h5 ASEC 2025 (2024) 323,994,739 ec36604cb735a660b51b0b2f90be27d803b5878f3464fb30d0eacead59c1260d 55,762 142,125
census_cps_2023.h5 ASEC 2024 (2023) 299,036,610 cb57817327799f42b741caed5f9be94d04021c2e6809c1ad7bd0686da5428d88 56,251 144,265
census_cps_2022.h5 ASEC 2023 (2022) 301,129,278 7ccca976284bb47815d84460cc4f75a0a65d26d7754ab0a0f417de351b3d474e 56,839 146,133

Household and person counts are the ones the Microcosm base stage recorded when it read these exact bytes on 16 September 2026.

Provenance

Each file is an HDF5 store of the person, family and household tables of the Census Bureau's public-use CPS ASEC release for that year:

  • 2024: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/datasets/2025/march/asecpub25csv.zip
  • 2023: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/datasets/2024/march/asecpub24csv.zip
  • 2022: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/datasets/2023/march/asecpub23csv.zip

They were produced by PolicyEngine's retired US data package's Census CPS loader. The exact commit of that loader that wrote each file was not recorded, so these files are pinned by their bytes, not by a rebuild recipe. The PolicyEngine organisation publishes earlier files with the same names in another repository; those have different bytes and are not interchangeable with these.

Licence and source terms

The underlying data are public-use microdata from the US Census Bureau and are in the public domain in the United States. PolicyEngine's processed files are offered under CC BY 4.0. The Census Bureau does not endorse this product.

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