acs-download 0.1.3

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

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

Features

• TODO

Credits

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

History

0.1.0 (2019-04-10)

• First release on PyPI.