Look up Census variables — load_nyc

Convenience wrapper around tidycensus::load_variables() for browsing the variable catalogues used by get_nyc_acs() and get_nyc_decennial(). The result is identical to a direct tidycensus call; this function exists so that all NYC-oriented Census helpers live in one place.

Usage

load_nyc_variables(year, dataset, cache = TRUE)

Arguments

year: The year, or endyear, of the dataset.
dataset: Dataset name. Common choices: "acs5", "pl", "dhc", "sf1". See tidycensus::load_variables() for the full list.
cache: Whether to cache the variable table on disk for re-use across sessions. Defaults to TRUE (the opposite of the upstream default, because caching is almost always what you want during package work).

Value

A tibble of variable IDs, labels, and concepts.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
acs <- load_nyc_variables(2023, "acs5")
dplyr::filter(acs, grepl("median household income", label, ignore.case = TRUE))
} # }