getStateACS: Scraping data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American...

In lrdegeest/StateACS: Scraping data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey

Description

Scrape personal or household data for any state and any year(s) in the American Community Survey (ACS) https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/

Usage

getStateACS(start, end, state, type, save = FALSE)

Arguments

start	starting year (e.g. 2011)
end	ending year (e.g. 2011)
state	state abbreviation (e.g. "IA" for Iowa)
type	personal ("p") or household ("h") data
save	save csv files of each year's data to your directory. Defaults to FALSE.

Details

The Census Bureau stores the data at https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/data/pums/

ACS PUMS documentation can be found at https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/pums/documentation.html

Value

list of data frames, one for each year

Note

This package uses the function download.file() from base R's utils package

Author(s)

Lawrence R De Geest, [e-mail]

Examples

# Get personal data from Iowa for years 2001 to 2016:
p.data <- getStateACS(2001, 2016, state = "IA", type = "personal")

lrdegeest/StateACS documentation built on May 24, 2019, 8:48 p.m.