demographics: Selects a specified demographic meta-data from the sp...
In UScensus2000: US Census 2000 Suite of R Packages

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demographics allows the user to pull out one or more demographic variables at several different geographic levels.

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demographics(dem = "pop2000", state, statefips=FALSE, 

level = c("tract", "blk", "blkgrp", "cdp","msa","county"), msaname=NULL)

`dem`	Character string or vector. Must be the actual name of the demographic variables attached to `UScensus2000` objects. Default `dem` = "pop2000"
`state`	a character string, can either be the full name of a state (e.g. "oregon"), the abbreviation (e.g. "or"), or the FIPS code (e.g. "41")– note that if you are using the FIPS code you have to change statefips to `TRUE`. This variable is insensitive to case.
`statefips`	logical, by default `statefips=FALSE`, set to `TRUE` if using the state FIPS codes.
`level`	a character string, takes levels `tract, blk, blkgrp, cdp, msa` or `county`
`msaname`	logical (optional), if `level="msa"`, allows the use of the verbose MSA placename (capitalized).

An object of class matrix.

You must have the packages UScensus2000blkgrp and UScensus2000blk installed to use levels "blkgrp" and "blk" respectively.

Zack W. Almquist almquist@uci.edu

Zack W. Almquist (2010). US Census Spatial and Demographic Data in R: The UScensus2000 Suite of Packages. Journal of Statistical Software, 37(6), 1-31. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v37/i06/.

Census 2000 Summary File 1 [name of state1 or United States]/prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau, 2001.
http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf1.pdf

county, MSA, city

library(UScensus2000tract)
library(UScensus2000cdp)
##MSA example
bayarea<-demographics(dem=c("pop2000","white","black"),"CA",level="msa",msaname="San Francisco")

## Print it out
bayarea
##Note that the columns are labeled by the county FIPS code.

##CDP example
ca.cdp<-demographics(dem=c("pop2000","white","black"),"CA",level="cdp")

##Print out in alphabetic order
ca.cdp[order(rownames(ca.cdp)),]