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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Jeffrey Naas over 9 years ago

Jami, I am coding an automated process to load the text files into the Excel Summary File Templates and subsequently load the entire batch into Access. It's all nearly done except for a bit of clean-up for the Excel load sub (writing a switch for the "e" and "m" files and a better error-handler). So yes, it works now but only for the "e" or "m" set separately. I'll post when it's more bullet-proof. For the Access import, I slightly modified code I found on the web to load the entire batch of Excel files (the hard work is literally already done thanks to this page).
www.accessmvp.com/.../EXCEL_Import.htm

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Jeffrey Naas over 9 years ago

Jami, I am coding an automated process to load the text files into the Excel Summary File Templates and subsequently load the entire batch into Access. It's all nearly done except for a bit of clean-up for the Excel load sub (writing a switch for the "e" and "m" files and a better error-handler). So yes, it works now but only for the "e" or "m" set separately. I'll post when it's more bullet-proof. For the Access import, I slightly modified code I found on the web to load the entire batch of Excel files (the hard work is literally already done thanks to this page).
www.accessmvp.com/.../EXCEL_Import.htm

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