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FR: Add pre-2000 population estimates dataset to APIs #2

Open hrecht opened 4 years ago

hrecht commented 4 years ago

It would be incredibly useful if earlier population estimates were added to the population estimates APIs, https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/popest-popproj/popest.html.

State estimates are only available 2000+. The 1990s intercensals only have counties broken down by subgroups, no totals or state totals. For earlier data I could only find a bunch of different txt and csv files that aren’t really formatted consistently year to year. If there’s ever any time to go through the backlog adding in older intercensals would be great.

census-api commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, Hannah. We'll make sure to pass this along to our data providers in Pop estimates.

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It would be incredibly useful if earlier population estimates were added to the population estimates APIs, https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/popest-popproj/popest.html.

State estimates are only available 2000+. The 1990s intercensals only have counties broken down by subgroups, no totals or state totals. For earlier data I could only find a bunch of different txt and csv files that aren’t really formatted consistently year to year. If there’s ever any time to go through the backlog adding in older intercensals would be great.

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