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Dear Mark, Thank you so much for getting the ACS DUG back up and running. Earlier you expressed a hope that you would be able to retrieve some of the old threads. Any thoughts ? Dave Dorer Dorer Community Service Foundation I'm continuing to work on an updated version of my ACS PUMS/detail tables ...

Dear Jon, What I do is use is the R package censusapi. For the ACS vintage and period and table type (B,S,DP,C etc) you can download the metadata for each combination using the R function: listCensusMetadata(name=name,vintage=vintage,type="variables") Use the R function that downloads all ...

The database is available in html json and xml formats. Here is the link to the html https://api.census.gov/data.html The mail web page is: https://www.census.gov/data/developers/updates/new-discovery-tool.html You will need a package/program to read the database in one of the above format. ...

Now that I look back at your question, I misinterpreted your question.You can use the API to download all the datasets that are available via the API. The R function listCensusApis(name = NULL, vintage = NULL) in the censusapi package will download a dataset with all the api url information the includes ...

I'm not sue what you mean by "start date." Do you mean the "data collection cycle" and "data cut" dates ? There is technical documentation somewhere that gives the data collection "waves" during the year. I think that there are 3 or 4 of them. The household is selected from the Master Address File (MAP) ...