I have been trying to find a variable on the Tidy Census’ latest American Community Survey (ACS) variable list.
The one I’m looking for would be for all voters aged 18 and up. I have yet to find it in the list. Even if I have to combine a couple variables to make it work, that’s fine too.
I search for relevant keywords related to age, but have yet to find anything. Variables that appear with “18 years and over” have a greater specificity than what I am looking for. I may be missing something though; I’m new to Tidy Census.
Help would be greatly appreciated!
Finding Census variables is difficult. Start here: https://data.census.gov/table?q=ACS
In table S0101 under labels there is a selected age categories variable named 18 years and over.
Searched those those keywords and found this long list. https://api.census.gov/data/2019/acs/acs1/subject/variables/
Where we find variable "S0101_C01_026".
["S0101_C01_026E","Estimate!!Total!!Total population!!SELECTED AGE CATEGORIES!!18 years and over","AGE AND SEX"],
Then we can get that variable:
county_data<-get_acs(geography = "county",
variables = "S0101_C01_026",
cache_table=TRUE,
year=2021)
county_data
# A tibble: 3,221 × 5 GEOID NAME variable estimate moe <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> 1 01001 Autauga County, Alabama S0101_C01_026 44438 122 2 01003 Baldwin County, Alabama S0101_C01_026 178105 NA 3 01005 Barbour County, Alabama S0101_C01_026 19995 28 4 01007 Bibb County, Alabama S0101_C01_026 17800 44 5 01009 Blount County, Alabama S0101_C01_026 45201 75