chekos / acs_download

Download US Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS) complete data files from US Census' FTP server.

THIS IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED. CHECK OUT PYPUMS INSTEAD: https://github.com/chekos/pypums ----------------------------

ACS Download

Download American Community Survey (ACS) complete Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS) data files from census FTP server.

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://acs-download.readthedocs.io.

Usage

import acs_download as acs

acs.get_data(
    year = 2017,
    state = 'California',
    download_path = '../data/raw/',
    extract = True,
    extract_path = '../data/interim/',
)

This will download ACS PUMS data file of California to your ../data/raw/ folder and extract it to ../data/interim/ folder.

acs_download uses pypi package us, which uses jellyfish, to handle state input so you can use variations

example of usage on Jupyter Lab

example of usage on command line

Features

• TODO

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.