Census Microdata Import Attempt Failed

Troubleshooting > Problems with Data > Census Microdata Import Attempt Failed

Make sure you can access the Internet.

You may have chosen attributes that are unavailable for your sample, such as Person attributes when you are importing households, or educational attainment when you are importing cases from 1880. Check the status bar comments for each attribute to see in which years it’s available.

You need to have at least one year selected for import. See Import Historical Data from IPUMS.

You may have selected one or more states and one or more metro areas to import. You can choose which states or which metro areas to import, but you can’t have selections from both. See Import Specific Geographical Areas from IPUMS.

Make sure the folder that contains the Fathom application has its Helpers folder, and that that folder has its ImportSpecs folder, and, finally, that that folder has the IPUMS_USA_InterfaceSpec.xml file.