Built-in dataset for variable name and code label lookup.
To access the data directly, issue the command data(pums_variables)
.
survey
: acs1 or acs5
year
: Year of data. For 5-year data, last year in range.
var_code
: Variable name
var_label
: Variable label
data_type
: chr or num
level
: housing or person
val_min
: For numeric variables, the minimum value
val_max
: For numeric variables, the maximum value
val_label
: Value label
recode
: Use labels to recode values
val_length
: Length of value returned
val_na
: Value of NA value returned by API (if known)
data(pums_variables)
An object of class tbl_df
(inherits from tbl
, data.frame
) with 37021 rows and 12 columns.
Dataset with PUMS variables and codes
Built-in dataset that is created from the
Census
PUMS data dictionaries. Use this dataset to lookup the names of variables to
use in get_pums
. This dataset also contains labels for the
coded values returned by the Census API and is used when recode = TRUE
in get_pums
.
Because variable names and codes change from year to year, you should filter this dataset for the survey and year of interest. NOTE: 2017 - 2019 acs1 and 2017 - 2020 acs5 variables are available.