ejscreen.acsget: Download ACS tables EJSCREEN uses, but with more race...

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Download ACS tables EJSCREEN uses, but with more race ethnicity poverty details

Description

EJScreen 2.0 was latest as of June 2022, released early 2022, and actually used ACS2019, which is from 2015-2019 (released late 2020).

Helper function used by ejscreen.create, but can be used if one wants to obtain the more detailed relevant ACS data. The EJSCREEN-related ACS tables have more of the detailed fields than the demographic data on the EJSCREEN FTP site, because the detailed fields are used to calculate the ones retained for EJSCREEN, such as percent non-hispanic black alone, percent hispanic, percent poor (<1x poverty line) not just percent low income (<2x poverty line), etc.

Usage

ejscreen.acsget(
  end.year = "2020",
  tables = c("B01001", "B03002", "B15002", "C16002", "C17002", "B25034", "B23025"),
  base.path = getwd(),
  data.path = file.path(base.path, "acsdata"),
  output.path = file.path(base.path, "acsoutput"),
  vars = "all",
  sumlevel = "bg",
  write.files = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

end.year	optional character year like 2020 specifying last of 5 years of ACS summary file
tables	Default is the ones needed for EJSCREEN - character vector list of Census data tables like B01001
base.path	optional, default is working directory; folder in which data.path and output.path subfolders are or will be created
data.path	see ACSdownload::get.acs()
output.path	see ACSdownload::get.acs()
vars	Default here is 'all' vars which is more than what ejscreen.create keeps. (or can be a vector of things like 'B01001')
sumlevel	Default here is just bg but see ACSdownload::get.acs()
write.files	Default here is TRUE but see ACSdownload::get.acs()
...	passed to ACSdownload::get.acs()

Details

Tables can include the EJScreen 2.1 tables: mytables <- c( "B01001","B03002","B15002",'B23025',"B25034","C16002","C17002") myurl <- paste0('https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=acs paste(mytables, collapse= ' browseURL(myurl) # <https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=acs

 ACSdownload::get.field.info(mytables, table.info.only = TRUE)[ , 1:2]
          ID                                                          title
  # 1 B01001                                                       SEX BY AGE
  # 2 B03002                                HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN BY RACE
  # 3 B15002 SEX BY EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT FOR POPULATION 25 YEARS AND OVER
  # 4 B23025           EMPLOYMENT STATUS FOR THE POPULATION 16 YEARS AND OVER
  # 5 B25034                                             YEAR STRUCTURE BUILT
  # 6 C16002  HOUSEHOLD LANGUAGE BY HOUSEHOLD LIMITED ENGLISH SPEAKING STATUS
  # 7 C17002           RATIO OF INCOME TO POVERTY LEVEL IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS

 

# C16002 replaced B16004 that was older ACS source for what had been called linguistic isolation, now called limited English speaking households.

Details on language spoken:

[www2.census.gov/topics/language-use/acs/acs_tabulations-language-list.pdf]

<https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=acs

Value

list of data.frames, default is just block group not tracts, unlike results of ACSdownload::get.acs()

Examples

 mytables <- c("B01001", "B03002", "B15002", 'B23025', "B25034", "C16002", "C17002")
 myurl <- paste0('https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=acs%20', paste(mytables, collapse= '%20'), '&y=2020')
 # browseURL(myurl)

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