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Title: Census Data Workflow using IPUMS NHGIS API: Data Request and Download

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Publication Year: 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3886/E120305V1

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Abstract: This archive provides two Jupyter Notebooks to explore metadata and retrieve data using the IPUMS NHGIS API. American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates 2005-2009 at the block group and county levels are requested and downloaded for Galveston County, Texas. Data of interest are race and ethnicity, and median household income. Block group and county shapefiles are also downloaded. The Python code was developed in Google Colaboratory, or Google Colab for short, which is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) of JupyterLab and streamlines package installation, code collaboration and management.The notebooks use Google Drive for file storage and include extensive markdown and comments. The notebooks can be adapted for use in other environments (i.e., Jupyter Notebook) as well as reading and writing files to a local or shared drive, or cloud drive (i.e., Google Drive). The first notebook explores metadata in order to identify relevant datasets and tables and necessary parameters for subsequent data request and retrieval. The second notebook uses the parameters identified from the first notebook. A data request is constructed and the data extract is downloaded and files unzipped and made ready for analysis. The data that were downloaded are also stored separately with this archive. The data referenced in this archive have research applications listed in the Related Publications section and in ongoing research at the Texas A&M University Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning (LAUP), and the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC).

Url: https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/120305/version/V1/view

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Authors: Day, Wayne; Goodman, Cooper; Gu, Donghwan; Korukonda, Jayasaree; Rosenheim, Nathanel

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Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

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