ACS 2013 5-year data available in MS Access 2007

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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  • Jeffrey, that is awesome! I think I tried excel to access before and I had trouble with the field types not being correct from excel - but then I'm not a pro at any of this, I just figure out ways to make it work as best I can. I didn't have this group last year so super glad to see some smart people in here sharing ways to get the data into databases.

    With Access, I run into filesize limitations so are you getting around that by programming it to load into multiple access files as needed? I put the data in multiple files then have one master database that links the tables into it from the other files.
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  • Jeffrey, that is awesome! I think I tried excel to access before and I had trouble with the field types not being correct from excel - but then I'm not a pro at any of this, I just figure out ways to make it work as best I can. I didn't have this group last year so super glad to see some smart people in here sharing ways to get the data into databases.

    With Access, I run into filesize limitations so are you getting around that by programming it to load into multiple access files as needed? I put the data in multiple files then have one master database that links the tables into it from the other files.
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