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December 22, 2014 17:16
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Produce a hierarchical text file of ACS concepts and variables
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
import requests | |
from collections import defaultdict | |
r = requests.get('http://api.census.gov/data/2013/acs5/variables.json') | |
acs = r.json()['variables'] | |
c = defaultdict(list) | |
for key, value in acs.iteritems(): | |
concept = value['concept'] | |
label = value['label'] | |
c[concept].append((key, label)) | |
with open('/Users/eric/Desktop/acs.txt', 'w') as fp: | |
for concept in sorted(c.keys()): | |
fp.write('%s\n' % concept) | |
for key, value in sorted(c[concept]): | |
if 'MARGIN OF ERROR' in value.upper(): continue | |
indent = value.count('!!') + 1 | |
if indent > 1: | |
value = value.rsplit('!!', 1)[-1] | |
fp.write(('\t' * indent) + '%s: %s\n' % (key, value)) | |
fp.write('\n') |
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