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Download American Community Survey (ACS) complete Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS) data files from census FTP server.

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://acs-download.readthedocs.io.

import acs_download as acs

acs.get_data(
    year = 2017,
    state = 'California',
    download_path = '../data/raw/',
    extract = True,
    extract_path = '../data/interim/',
)

This will download ACS PUMS data file of California to your ../data/raw/ folder and extract it to ../data/interim/ folder.

acs_download uses pypi package us, which uses jellyfish, to handle state input so you can use variations

example of usage on Jupyter Lab

example of usage on command line

• TODO

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.