Details about variables in the most recent American Community Series
METADATA_FOR_ACS_VARIABLES.RdIn the context of ACS data, a "variable" is a single row of data from running a query about a specific topic. For example, group B010001 reports population numbers by sex and age, and group B25063 reports the number of housing units in different rent brackets. Technically, there are 4 variables for each row: the estimate, its margin of error, and annotations for each of those. In practice, we usually just want the estimate..
Format
A list with three items
- Dataset
Whether this variable pertains to the 1-year or 5-year dataset.
- Group
The code for the group, such as "B01001B" or "B25063"
- Index
The row number in the group for this variable, like 2 or 5.
- Variable
The full code for this variable, like "B01001B_002E" or "B25063_005E"
- Details
A vector of one or more strings describing what the variable actually represents.