Numerator and denominator ACS codes of the five built-in rates

The numerator and denominator codes of each of the five rates that cacs_derive_rates() and cacs_run() compute. The codes are American Community Survey (ACS) variable codes. The list is the default, and the only accepted value, of the rates argument of both functions.

Usage

cacs_acs_default_rates

Format

A named list of five character vectors, one for each rate. Each vector has the elements num and den, the ACS codes of the numerator and the denominator.

Details

The five rates are:

poverty_rate

People whose income in the past 12 months was below the poverty level (B17001_002) divided by people for whom poverty status is determined (B17001_001).

snap_rate

Households that received Food Stamps or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the past 12 months (B22003_002) divided by all households (B22003_001).

ssi_rate

Households with Supplemental Security Income (SSI) in the past 12 months (B19056_002) divided by all households (B19056_001).

unemp_rate

Unemployed people in the civilian labor force (B23025_005) divided by the civilian labor force (B23025_003), among people 16 years and over.

labor_force_participation

People in the labor force, including the armed forces (B23025_002), divided by people 16 years and over (B23025_001).

See also

cacs_derive_rates() computes the rates and their margins of error, and vignette("theory-derived-rates", package = "catchmentACS") (https://joonho112.github.io/catchmentACS/articles/theory-derived-rates.html) explains the calculations.

Other rates and margins of error: cacs_moe_to_se(), cacs_se_to_moe()

Examples

names(cacs_acs_default_rates)
#> [1] "poverty_rate"              "snap_rate"                
#> [3] "ssi_rate"                  "unemp_rate"               
#> [5] "labor_force_participation"

# The codes of the numerator and the denominator of the poverty rate
cacs_acs_default_rates$poverty_rate
#>          num          den 
#> "B17001_002" "B17001_001"