METADATA_FOR_ACS_GEOGRAPHIES: Details about levels of geographic detail in the most recent...

In higherX4Racine/hercacstables: Work with American Community Survey Tables through the US Census API

Details about levels of geographic detail in the most recent American Community Series

Description

In the context of ACS data, "geography" is a specific type of geographical area, such as a region, state, county, reservation, tract, or block. Some geographical levels, such as region or state, can be given by themselves. Others, such as county or place, must be queried within a specific containing geographic level (usually state). Very small geographic areas, like blocks, may require several levels of containing geographies, such as state, county, and tract. Some containing geographies may be given as wildcards. For example, you could ask for county-level data from every state all at once by specifying "*" instead of a FIPS code for the state.

Usage

METADATA_FOR_ACS_GEOGRAPHIES

Format

A tibble with five columns

Geographic Level

The verbatim text that you must pass to the API when referring to this geographic level.

Containing Geographies

One or more sets of containing geographies that must be specified when querying for this level of geography

Wildcard Option

Which containing geography, if any, can be set to a wildcard when pulling data for this geographical level.

ACS1

A reference date if this level is available in the 1-year dataset, otherwise NA.

ACS5

A reference date if this level is available in the 5-year dataset, otherwise NA.

Source

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/geography-acs/concepts-definitions.html

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