While the ACS 5-year is often described as having "data for all geographies down to block group," there are a number of tables for which data are not available for all geographic levels.
This is laid out in detail in a spreadsheet. It would be great to be able to get these restrictions as part of the group metadata.
A minimum would be to simply add the text from column C as a field in the per-group metadata; my preference would be an explicit list of summary levels (codes and/or text identifiers as used in the API) that are either available or not available.
Reading more closely, I think this is a duplicate of #1 , except for a different suggestion about what the best solution would be (availability data at group vs variable level)
While the ACS 5-year is often described as having "data for all geographies down to block group," there are a number of tables for which data are not available for all geographic levels.
This is laid out in detail in a spreadsheet. It would be great to be able to get these restrictions as part of the group metadata.
A minimum would be to simply add the text from column C as a field in the per-group metadata; my preference would be an explicit list of summary levels (codes and/or text identifiers as used in the API) that are either available or not available.