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changes to directions on getting tract data #20
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Great work! I requested a few small changes. Thank you for updating the documentation.
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- To better understand geoids, see https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/geo-identifiers.html | ||
- For processing, see /scripts | ||
This shapefile is (inner-) joined with the given state's census data | ||
- Process the shapefile to have geoids at census tract granularity - To better understand geoids, see https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/geo-identifiers.html - For processing, see /scripts |
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formatting issue: "- To better understand..." should be on a new line to keep the bullet point as a bullet point.
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- Click "DOWNLOAD TABLE", select the years you want to download, click "DOWNLOAD.CSV", and wait for prompt to say download is ready at the bottom of the screen | ||
- If the downnload doesn't start up, click the download button again then a .zip file should be downloaded. | ||
- The relevant file should be called "ACSDT5Y[year].[code]\_data_with_overlays_2022-04-14T225511.csv", [code] being B02001 for race and S1903 for income. |
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file name content following _data_with_overlays_
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The data used for this map is household median income, and household race. | ||
*Race is displayed on the map as “Percent White”, which is calculated as the percentage of households that report “white only” in a given census tract. | ||
\*Race is displayed on the map as “Percent White”, which is calculated as the percentage of households that report “white only” in a given census tract. | ||
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As of August 2019, this race and income data is [only available up to 2017](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/news/data-releases/2018/release.html), so the map shows the same 2017 data for years 2018 and 2019. |
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@wtruitt3 to update?
…cripts to take in these datafiles
…r data - fixes map issues
I updated the readme to include new directions on how to get to the Race and Income data tables.