UScensus2010 (version 0.20.0)

demographics: Selects a specified demographic meta-data from the sp objects.

Description

demographics allows the user to pull out one or more demographic variables at several different geographic levels.

Usage

demographics(dem = "P0010001", state, statefips=FALSE, level = c("tract", 
    "blk", "blkgrp", "cdp", "msa", "county"), msaname=NULL)

Arguments

dem

Character string or vector. Must be the actual name of the demographic variables attached to UScensus2010 objects. Default dem = " P0010001"

state

a character string, can either be the full name of a state (e.g. "oregon"), the abbreviation (e.g. "or"), or the FIPS code (e.g. "41")-- note that if you are using the FIPS code you have to change statefips to TRUE. This variable is insensitive to case.

statefips

logical, by default statefips=FALSE, set to TRUE if using the state FIPS codes.

level

a character string, takes levels tract, blk, blkgrp, cdp, msa or county

msaname

logical (optional), if level="msa", allows the use of the verbose MSA placename (capitalized).

Value

An object of class matrix.

Warning

You must have the packages UScensus2010tract, UScensus2010blkgrp and UScensus2010blk installed to use levels "blkgrp" and "blk" respectively.

References

Zack W. Almquist (2010). US Census Spatial and Demographic Data in R: The UScensus2000 Suite of Packages. Journal of Statistical Software, 37(6), 1-31. https://www.jstatsoft.org/v37/i06/.

Census 2010 Summary File 1 [name of state1 or United States]/prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau, 20010. https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/doc/sf1.pdf

See Also

county, MSA, city

Examples

# NOT RUN {
#County Example
demographics(state="or",level="county")
# }