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At present, you pass in fields that are just the codes listed in the Census reference handbook. This provides reliability, but it's not very Rubyish.
I think it's possible to let people specify field components by text, which are looked up in a YAML file / Hash to construct the field code.
Example:
field=Field.new(:total_population,:total,:white,:total)field.code# => 'P0010001'@client.find(field,county: 'Suffolk',state: 'MA')# => [{"P0010001"=>"722023", "name"=>"Suffolk County", "state"=>"25", "county"=>"025"}] # or specify the table name directly, which returns the first field for that table@client.find(:total_population,county: 'Suffolk',state: 'MA')# => [{"P0010001"=>"722023", "name"=>"Suffolk County", "state"=>"25", "county"=>"025"}] field_hh=Field.new(:household_type,:other_family)field_hh.code#=> 'P0180004'
Field Construction
Field codes appear to have a highly structured construction, but the principles behind it are not clearly laid out anywhere in the census docs. From cursory research, they look like:
P001A0001
Table Type: P
Table Indicator: 001 (in Census docs, it's just P1. Any table indicator is formatted with a %3d.
(Optional) Race Indicator: A
Field Code:
Or, as an object (looks like YAML a little...):
P: Population
001: Total (Population)
A: White
0001: Total
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At present, you pass in fields that are just the codes listed in the Census reference handbook. This provides reliability, but it's not very Rubyish.
I think it's possible to let people specify field components by text, which are looked up in a YAML file / Hash to construct the field code.
Example:
Field Construction
Field codes appear to have a highly structured construction, but the principles behind it are not clearly laid out anywhere in the census docs. From cursory research, they look like:
P001A0001
%3d
.Or, as an object (looks like YAML a little...):
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: