ACS Estimates — get_acs_recs • psrccensus

Generate ACS estimates for multiple tables by tracts, counties, MSAs, or places for multiple years using data.table for improved performance.

Usage

get_acs_recs(
  geography,
  state = "Washington",
  counties = c("King", "Kitsap", "Pierce", "Snohomish"),
  table.names,
  variables,
  years,
  FIPS = c("14740", "42660"),
  place_FIPS = NULL,
  acs.type
)

Arguments

geography: A character string as either 'tract', 'county', 'msa', 'place', 'block group', 'puma', or 'state'.
state: A character string state name or abbreviation. Defaults to Washington.
counties: A character string or vector of counties. Defaults to PSRC counties.
table.names: A character string or vector of Census table; alternative to individual variable codes
variables: A character string or vector of individual Census variable codes; alternative to table codes
years: A numeric value or vector of years. An ACS year equal or greater than 2010 to the latest available year.
FIPS: Character string for FIPS codes for specific MSA geographies. Defaults to Seattle & Bremerton MSA c("14740","42660")
place_FIPS: Character string of FIPS codes (with state prefix) for specific Census Places. If NULL, Places within the PSRC Region will be returned.
acs.type: A character string as either 'acs1', 'acs3' or acs5'.

Value

a data frame of ACS estimates by selected geography for selected table codes. Includes variable names.

Author

Craig Helmann