pull_synth_data function

Pull ACS data for synthetic data creation.

Pull ACS data for a specified geography from base tables B01001, B02001, B12002, B15001, B06001, B06010, B23001, B17005, and B17005. These tables reference population counts by a number of slices. Multiple additional fields, mainly percentages and aggregations, are calculated.

pull_synth_data(endyear, span, geography)

Arguments

• endyear: An integer, indicating the latest year of the data in the survey.
• span: An integer in c(1,3,5) indicating the span of the desired data.
• geography: a valid geo.set object specifying the census geography or geographies to be fetched.

Returns

A list containing the endyear, span, a list of data.frames of estimates, a list of data.frames of standard errors, and the geography metadata from acs.fetch.

Examples

## Not run:

# make geography
la_geo <- acs::geo.make(state= "CA", county= "Los Angeles", tract= "*")
# pull data elements for creating synthetic data
la_dat <- pull_synth_data(2014, 5, la_geo)
## End(Not run)

See Also

acs.fetch, geo.make