walkerke/tidycensus

Connecticut data absent in county-level geography request

ILSR-GIS-DATA opened this issue · 2 comments

ILSR-GIS-DATA commented

I recently used get_acs to get some county-level data for the whole country, using the newest 2018-2022 data. I discovered that Connecticut counties are missing! When I searched for Connecticut in the dataframe I created (see below), I found several CT "regions" instead. It doesn't seem to be an issue for other states.

This is the code I used:
HHincome_county.1 <- get_acs(survey = "acs5", geography = "county", table = "B19001", year = 2022, geometry = FALSE, moe_level = 95, state = NULL,cache_table = FALSE)

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szimmer commented

This is not an issue with tidycensus. Connecticut changed its county-equivalents recently. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/technical-documentation/county-changes.html

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ILSR-GIS-DATA commented

This is not an issue with tidycensus. Connecticut changed its county-equivalents recently. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/technical-documentation/county-changes.html

OH! That clears it up - thanks for the quick response.

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