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Use Census ACS API to download raw census data about commuting and population #1

Open liezl200 opened 9 years ago

liezl200 commented 9 years ago

See here: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/acs/acs.pdf

Relevant data sets:

ACS DEMOGRAPHIC AND HOUSING ESTIMATES: 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Found through manual search on FactFinder)

The below datasets were found at http://www.census.gov/population/metro/data/other.html. Table 1. Residence County to Workplace County Flows for the United States and Puerto Rico Sorted by Residence Geography: 2006-2010 [XLSX - 7.2M] Table 2. Residence County to Workplace County Flows for the United States and Puerto Rico Sorted by Workplace Geography: 2006-2010 [XLSX - 7.0M] Table 5. Number of Workers in Workplace Geography (State-County-Place) for the United States and Puerto Rico: 2006-2010

erispoe commented 9 years ago

Great that you found the ACS package. There is also a Census set of web APIs: http://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html

liezl200 commented 9 years ago

Thanks, I'll also look into http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/documentation_main/ which is accessible through the link you provided.