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2017 5-year Summery File Templates

Bernie
over 5 years ago

Hi. Does anyone from the Census know if they'll be releasing the 5-year Summary File Templates prior to the data release? I'm referring to this file (from last year): https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2016/data/2016_5yr_Summary_FileTemplates.zip. Last year, it was released a week before the data release, but doesn't appear to be released yet this year (I would expect to find it here: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2017/data/). It's very helpful for our preparation in processing ACS.

 

Thanks!

-Bernie

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  • over 5 years ago in reply to JamiRae
    No, it has a lot of related information, but I'm specifically looking for the template files, which besides being in the FTP pages listed above, appeared last year here: www.census.gov/.../summary-file.2016.html.

    The reason for wanting the template files is we have pre-built processes that use these files. We could shift to using the lookup file, but would rather not if the template files will be released. I assume they will be at some point, since the 2017 1-year ACS has them.
  • over 5 years ago in reply to Bernie
    ah, right. Odd that they aren't included with the pre-prelease documentation. Haven't stumbled on those. I have created an MS Access file with the file structure ready and and macro to import the files, if that helps you.
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