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ppmf

The goal of ppmf is to convert Census Privacy Protected Microdata Files into somewhat wider data aggregated to a geographic level.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("christopherkenny/ppmf")

Basics

Load the package:

library(ppmf)

Download and read data with:

path <- download_ppmf(dsn = 'filename.csv', dir = 'some/directory', version = '19')
al <- read_ppmf(state = 'AL', path = path)

Version ‘19’ reflects the 19.61 finalized parameters used again for the 2020 Census.

For future use, I recommend storing the path to the data for future sessions using:

add_pmmf19_path(path)

Then the path can be recovered with:

path19 <- Sys.getenv('ppmf19')

Once you’ve read in what you want, you can aggregate it to the right level:

al <- al %>% add_geoid()
blocks <- agg(al)

And aggregated data can use the GEOID to merge with shapefiles:

library(dplyr) # to clean up the data

shp <- tigris::blocks('AL', year = 2010) %>% 
  select(GEOID10, geometry) %>% rename(GEOID = GEOID10)
shp <- shp %>% left_join(blocks, by = 'GEOID')

# always clean shp!
shp[is.na(shp)] <- 0

For users with the newest package version, there is an added dependency on censable, which allows for an easier workflow. If you’ve used the add_pmmf*_path() workflow suggested, you don’t even need to supply the paths!

This will not just read the ppmf data, it will merge it with 2010 Census populations (by major race/ethnicity grouping) and add the corresponding geometries.

al <- read_merge_ppmf('AL', level = 'block', versions = '19')

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They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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