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Update to Use New Structures #30

Open marcelo-g-simas opened 7 years ago

marcelo-g-simas commented 7 years ago

Just got an email from Census today stating that they are going to be making some changes to the structure of the data that comes from their APIs (sounds like they will be mainly adding some extra attributes). This is going to be phased in but eventually will be rolled out to all APIs. Are there plans to add support for these changes?

gregmacfarlane commented 7 years ago

I'll have to see the information on what specific changes they are going to make. Making a note of the proposed changes in this thread here.

As part of consistency in format, the American Community Survey (ACS) will now include annotation fields for all estimates. This will enable the estimates to be numeric and the character overrides will be stored in the corresponding annotation field. To accommodate this format change, the ACS endpoints will change to add 'acs/' into the URI after the year.

To prepare for these changes, we have made the 2015 ACS 1-Year available in the new format as an early review. The attached guide includes specific examples on how both the content format and the endpoints changed. Please note that beginning with the release of the 2016 ACS 1-Year estimates on September 14, 2017, the data will only be available in the new format. We will continue to maintain the 2015 1-Year estimates in the original format until October 1, 2017.