GETCENSUS: Stata module to load American Community Survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau API into Stata

Claire Zippel (), Matt Saenz, Raheem Chaudhry () and Vincent Palacios ()
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Claire Zippel: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Matt Saenz: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Raheem Chaudhry: Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
Vincent Palacios: Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: getcensus is a Stata package for loading American Community Survey (ACS) data from the U.S. Census Bureau API into Stata. It also allows users to search the API data dictionaries for ACS variables and tables of interest. For more information, visit the online documentation: https://centeronbudget.github.io/getcensus/

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 13.1 and jsonio from SSC (q.v.)
Keywords: census data; American Community Survey; API (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-10-17, Revised 2023-09-21
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install getcensus". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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