synthACS (version 1.7.1)

pull_synth_data: Pull ACS data for synthetic data creation.

Description

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.

Usage

pull_synth_data(endyear, span, geography)

Value

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.

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.

See Also

acs.fetch, geo.make

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# 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)
}