acsagetable: Demographic and sex by age data from ACS tables for counties,...
In heathermkrause/WWC: Weighing the Wisdom of the Crowd

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Demographic and sex by age data from ACS tables B01001 and B01001B/D/H/I for counties, states, and the U.S., fetched and processed by process_acs_age and process_acs_age_all.

1	acsagetable

A data frame with 163,600 rows and 8 variables:

sex: Male or female.
age: Under 18 years, 18 to 24 years, 25 to 44 years, 45 to 64 years, or 65 years and over.
raceethnicity: White alone, Hispanic or Latino, black alone, Asian alone, or other.
population: The number of people in this demographic bin.
sextotal: The number of people in this sex and age bin.
geototal: The total number of people tabulated in this geographic region.
prob: population/geototal, or the proportion of the total that is in this demographic bin.
region: Geographic region, such as US for the entire United States, a two-letter abbrevation for a state (TX for Texas), or a 5-digit FIPS code for a county (17031 for Cook County).

Uses ACS 5-year estimate for 2010-2014; the data from table B01001 is rebinned and used to find the "other" population. The "other" population is set to 1 when it turns out negative because of measurement uncertainty. (This is rare and more common in low population counties.)

heathermkrause/WWC documentation built on May 17, 2019, 3:20 p.m.