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 58580 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 and 2021 acs1 and 2017 - 2021 acs5 variables are available.