Pick a year-specific table from among lookup.acs20xx objects

Pick a year-specific lookup table of information on American Community Survey (ACS) tables, from the Census Bureau, namely which sequence files on the FTP site contain which tables and which variables.

Usage

get.lookup.acs(end.year = acsdefaultendyearhere)

Arguments

end.year

Character, optional, like "2021", which specifies the 2016-2021 dataset. Defines which 5-year summary file to use, based on end-year. Note: Function stops with error if given end.year is not yet added to this package or is too old.

Value

returns a data.frame

See also

• get.table.info() and get.field.info().

• Also see tidycensus::load_variables() from the tidycensus package for an alternative way to get ACS data and variable info.

• Also see download.lookup.acs() to download the file from the Census FTP site.

• Also see lookup.acs lookup.acs2021 and similar data for other years.

• Also see get_acs_new(), get.lookup.file.name(), get.url.prefix.lookup.table()

Examples

 names(lookup.acs2021)
 names(lookup.acs)