[acs-r] 2012 5 year acs is out

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

Thanks -- I'll look into this and see how it affects the acs.R
package.  Right now, I'm pretty sure the package will just use the
2011 xml table to try to find table and variable numbers.  From what I
can tell, the name of the *file* has changed, and the *order* that
tables are listed seems to have changed, but the rest is that same.
Is that your impression as well?

At Fri, 10 Jan 2014 22:01:58 -0800, M Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
> Interesting side note - I was hacking around on this today and noticed something - the XML
> file listing the 2012 variable names has a much different naming scheme than the previous
> two. The names are
> 
> http://www.census.gov/developers/data/acs_5yr_2010_var.xml
> http://www.census.gov/developers/data/acs_5yr_2011_var.xml
> http://www.census.gov/developers/data/2012_acs5_variables.xml
> 
> I've hacked up my code (https://github.com/znmeb/pdxcensusdata) and renamed the 2012 file
> to the same format as 2010 and 2011. If you're just interested in the table names, see the
> CSV files in that repo. I'm about to code up a demo with the Gini coefficients of the PDX
> metro area to the finest granularity I can get - it should be up in the repo Sunday.
> 
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Ezra Haber Glenn <eglenn at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>     As long as you are using the current version of the acs.R package
>     (1.1), the acs.fetch command will actually succeed in fetching the
>     2012 data, despite this warning message.  Since R is notoriously
>     silent when completing commands, users may mistake the warning for a
>     failure, but the data should be there.  That said, I do need to update
>     the scripts to remove this warning for the next version of the
>     package.
>    
>     As for a list of all ACS tables supported by the package, it should be
>     the same as those available through the census API, as described here:
>     http://www.census.gov/developers/data/.  In the sidebar on the left,
>     there are links to describe all table and variables.  (The one
>     important difference being that the acs.R package does not fetch the
>     "data profile" tables, since these are pretty different in character
>     from most of the other available tables -- more like mini-reports,
>     really.)
>    
>     Thanks for using the package, and I hope this helps clarify things a
>     bit.
>    
>     --Ezra
> 
>     At Sun, 29 Dec 2013 18:26:30 -0800, Anon RUser wrote:
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>     > The census just released the 2012 5 year ACS:
>     > http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/2012_release/
>     >
>     > But when I tried to use acs.R to get data from it I got this message:
>     > In acs.fetch(endyear = endyear, span = span, geography = geography[[1]],  :
>     >   As of the date of this version of the acs package
>     >   Census API did not provides data for selected endyear
>     >
>     > Is there an ETA for acs.R supporting this data?
>     >
>     > Also, I finally found a page listing all the ACS ever done:
>     > http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/help/jsf/pages/metadata.xhtml?lang=en&type=
>     survey&id=
>     > survey.en.ACS_ACS
>     >
>     > But when I try to access a lot of this data via the acs.R package I get errors
>     saying that
>     > it's not available via the census api.  Is there any source listing which subset of
>     this
>     > data is available via the api?
>     >
>     > Thanks.
>     >
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Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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