acs (version 0.5)

acs-package: Download and manipulate data from the US Census ACS

Description

Provides a general toolkit for downloading, managing, and analyzing data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey (ACS) dataset. Confidence intervals provided with the data are converted to standard errors to be bundled with estimates as complex acs objects. Package provides new methods to conduct standard operations and tests of significance on acs objects in statistically appropriate ways. Current version 0.5 +/- .15.

Details

ll{ Package: acs Type: Package Version: 0.5 Date: 2012-02-14 License: GPL-3 Depends: stringr, methods }

The package defines a new "acs" class object (containing estimates, standard errors, and metadata for tables from the U.S. Census American Community Survey), with methods to deal appropriately with common tasks, such as combining subgroups or geographies, mathematical operations on estimates, tests of significance, and computing (and eventually plotting) confidence intervals.

References

1. A Compass for Understanding and Using American Community Survey Data: What State and Local Governments Need to Know. Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau. 2009.

acs.R: An R Package for Neighborhood-Level Data from the U.S. Census. Ezra Haber Glenn, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Presented at the Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management Conference, July 6, 2011. http://web.mit.edu/dusp/dusp_extension_unsec/people/faculty/eglenn/glenn_acs_cupum_jou.pdf.