[CTPP News] Obtaining Census Population Estimates using the R package tidycensus

I’m forwarding a “toot” (Mastodon equivalent of a tweet) regarding an updated version of the r package tidycensus. All of the hub bub in the current news is about the new vintage 2022 population estimates released by the Census Bureau this past Thursday, May 18th. Lots of interesting stories are being told!! I tested tidycensus for California and US states, counties, and places, and it works great. It’s a little awkward since you need to split your analysis into the 2010-2019 period from the 2020-2022 period (i.e., can’t get 2019 thru 2022 in one call!) My tidycensus population estimates r script is available here: https://github.com/chuckpurvis/r_scripts/blob/main/popestimates_calif_01.R ########### UPCOMING: The “SF1” equivalent to Census 2020 is embargoed right now (media has access to the data; public, doesn’t) and will be released this Thursday, May 25th. This is the “DHC” "Demographic and Housing Characteristics” file. My expectation is that Professor Walker will have updated tidycensus to read DHC by the end of my morning coffee on Thursday. ########### “A brand-new version of the #rstats tidycensus package is now on CRAN, supporting the brand-new 2022 Population Estimates (which you can't get from the API). Download the new version today and start making charts like this!” - author Kyle Walker https://walker-data.com/tidycensus