Does anyone know of a resource to find the start dates for one-year and five-year ACS tables? For example, S1502 had its first year with one- and five-year data in 2015, B01001 in 2010. S2801 had its first with one-year data in 2015, and 5-year data in 2017.
I'm looking for a way to find those dates for arbitrary tables in bulk without having to pull them up one at a time in data.census.gov.
Thanks -
Jon
I don't know of a resource that would provide exactly what you're looking for (that'd be nice!), but an option that would be more efficient for this than data.census.gov is the API for IPUMS NHGIS. You could use that get metadata for all of the one- & five-year detailed tables and then determine when any table came into existence programmatically. We provide R & Python libraries that facilitate IPUMS API queries (ipumsr and ipumspy) along with documentation and guides.Caveats: we include only the detailed tables in NHGIS, so this wouldn't help with the S tables, and we don't have 1-year data from before 2010.
FWIW, I put in a help request to census.data@census.gov, and got back a reply from acso.users.support@census.gov. I was informed that the data products specialists "thought this was a really great idea" and that it was passed along to the developers.