Hi All,
Does anyone have a list of variable names that would help me identify the median age, sex of population (in percent), median household income, and race (in percentages) for each state from 2010-2019 (or even earlier if that is possible)? There are a lot of variable names, and I wanted to check this forum to see if there were a few that were predominantly used in research. If there are any other important state level variables you would suggest to use, that would also be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for any support you may provide! For reference, I and querying the API using tidycensus.
Regards,
Joseph Navelski
I find the Census Reporter topic documentation to be really useful for this. Here, for example, is their income topic that describes the different income-related variables in ACS and when you might choose…
No to state the obvious, but the ACS Table Shells workbook is worth perusing. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/table-shells.html
This is the complete codebook for the…
B01002_001E Should be median age
api.census.gov/.../B01002.html
I find the Census Reporter topic documentation to be really useful for this. Here, for example, is their income topic that describes the different income-related variables in ACS and when you might choose to use each one:
https://censusreporter.org/topics/income/
There are similar topic pages for many other areas that you are interested in.
Matt
Hi Matt, thanks for your reply! I did manage to use the B19013_001 for median HH income, but have not found the rest of the variables as of yet. When you mention "topic pages," you are referring to previous question that have been posted on this forum, correct?
I was talking about the Census Reporter Topic pages, which are all listed here: https://censusreporter.org/topics/
They have good overviews of a number of topic areas you seem interested in. Here is their Age and Sex topic page: https://censusreporter.org/topics/age-sex/ and their race/ethnicity topic page: https://censusreporter.org/topics/race-hispanic/