ACS 2013 5-year data available in MS Access 2007

JamiRae over 9 years ago

Hi all,

I will be importing the 5year estimate summary files for Oregon, Arizona, and Washington D.C. into an Access database (2007 version). I've set up a macro to run the import routine so it wouldn't be too difficult to do additional states. The files are large so, as you can imagine, it actually takes multiple Access files to import them all. Ideally these should be used on a SQL server, though I currently don't have access to SQL so this is my method for now.

If anyone would like the Access files for any state, let me know and I can import it for you or send you documentation on how to do it for yourself. I will need to test my import routine when the data are released on Thursday so I don't want to give out the documentation files until I know this works properly. I did this for the 2012 5year estimates, so I know it works, but I've had to make adjustments due to changes in the Sequence Files so I want to make sure I got the adjustments correct before I distribute it.

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JamiRae over 9 years ago

@Dominic - I created SPEC files in Access to import all the tables (specifications). I should be able to export them if you think it is helpful, though I also have excel files with them it - but that may be cumbersome to deal with, I'm not sure. attached are the Excel files if anyone thinks they can use them. I created them in Excel then pasted them into the mysysIMEXColumns (hidden system files) in Access. In case you're unfamiliar with these, the SPECID field links to the MysysIMEXSpecs file to create the spec tables. These are the specs that you can pull up in the "advanced" section when importing text files It may appear to be a convoluted process, but it worked for me.

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JamiRae over 9 years ago

@Dominic - I created SPEC files in Access to import all the tables (specifications). I should be able to export them if you think it is helpful, though I also have excel files with them it - but that may be cumbersome to deal with, I'm not sure. attached are the Excel files if anyone thinks they can use them. I created them in Excel then pasted them into the mysysIMEXColumns (hidden system files) in Access. In case you're unfamiliar with these, the SPECID field links to the MysysIMEXSpecs file to create the spec tables. These are the specs that you can pull up in the "advanced" section when importing text files It may appear to be a convoluted process, but it worked for me.

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