2023 ACS update & community profiles

• ACS year: 2023
• DCWS year(s): 2015-2024

Distribution-ready files are in to_distro. CSV file for populating website’s community profiles is in website. Starting December 2025, the DCWS data is from the multi-year MRP estimates rather than single years from crosstabs.

Output

                                            levelName
1  .                                                 
2   ¦--fetch_data                                    
3   ¦   ¦--acs_basic_2023_fetch_all.rds              
4   ¦   ¦--mrp_estimates_2015_2024_town_profiles.csv 
5   ¦   °--mrp_moe_tbl.csv                           
6   ¦--output_data                                   
7   ¦   ¦--acs_nhoods_by_city_2023.rds               
8   ¦   ¦--acs_town_basic_profile_2023.csv           
9   ¦   ¦--acs_town_basic_profile_2023.rds           
10  ¦   ¦--cws_basic_indicators_2015_2024.rds        
11  ¦   °--cws_basic_indicators_2024.rds             
12  °--to_distro                                     
13      ¦--bridgeport_acs_basic_neighborhood_2023.csv
14      ¦--hartford_acs_basic_neighborhood_2023.csv  
15      ¦--new_haven_acs_basic_neighborhood_2023.csv 
16      ¦--stamford_acs_basic_neighborhood_2023.csv  
17      °--town_acs_basic_distro_2023.csv            

Development

Several global functions and other objects are loaded when each script sources utils/pkgs_utils.R, including all loaded libraries. There are two global variables for years: yr and cws_yr, for the ACS endyear and the CWS year, respectively. Those are both set within a config file, and can be taken as positional arguments by pkgs_utils.R.

To build the full project in the proper order, on the command line run:

snakemake all

or rebuild just one piece of it, e.g. snakemake prep_distro.

Calling snakemake testvars will verify what years are being used by sourcing just utils/pkgs_utils.R.

Additionally, this repo has a release of data in order to have a single source of the year’s ACS data for other projects. To create and upload the release, run:

snakemake release

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