pl_get_baf

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From the Census: "The Block Assignment Files (BAFs) are among the geographic
products that the Census Bureau provides to states and other data users
containing the small area census data necessary for legislative
redistricting. The BAFs contain Census tabulation block codes and geographic
area codes for a specific geographic entity type."

Tools to process legacy format summary redistricting data files
produced by the United States Census Bureau pursuant to P.L. 94-171. These
files are generally available earlier but are difficult to work with as-is.

Cory McCartan

PL94171

Tabulate P.L. 94-171 Redistricting Data Summary Files

Christopher T. Kenny

pl_get_baf function

<dl><dt>abbr</dt>
<dd>the state abbreviation to get the BAF for</dd>
<dt>geographies</dt>
<dd>the geographies to get. Defaults to all available.</dd>
<dt>cache_to</dt>
<dd>the file name, if any, to cache the results to (as an RDS).
If a file exists and <code>refresh=FALSE</code>, will read BAF from this file.</dd>
<dt>refresh</dt>
<dd>if <code>TRUE</code>, force a re-download of the BAF data.</dd></dl>

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From the Census: "The Block Assignment Files (BAFs) are among the geographic
products that the Census Bureau provides to states and other data users
containing the small area census data necessary for legislative
redistricting. The BAFs contain Census tabulation block codes and geographic
area codes for a specific geographic entity type."

Download 2020 Block Assignment Files for a State — pl_get_baf

<dl>

<dt>abbr</dt>
<dd>the state abbreviation to get the BAF for</dd>


<dt>geographies</dt>
<dd>the geographies to get. Defaults to all available.</dd>


<dt>cache_to</dt>
<dd>the file name, if any, to cache the results to (as an RDS).
If a file exists and <code>refresh=FALSE</code>, will read BAF from this file.</dd>


<dt>refresh</dt>
<dd>if <code>TRUE</code>, force a re-download of the BAF data.</dd>

</dl>

pl_get_baf: Download 2020 Block Assignment Files for a State

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