ACS Data Users Group

For those of you fighting with the new CEDSCI website, you can access tables directly through URL "deep links." I have found for simple tasks, like getting several tables for all counties in a state, this is faster than going through the web search and table filter.

The PDF can be found at www.northarrow.org/CEDSCI_Deep_Link_Tutorial.pdf.

Two updates to this.

1. This link is no longer active but the document can be found at https://sdcclearinghouse.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/cedsci_deep_link_tutorial.pdf

2. Links for nested geographies (ex. all counties within a state) are now formed slightly differently. In the geography part of the URL, the "." in the URL is now either a "$" or a "%24". Note that $ doesn't seem to work in all browsers.

Old:

https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=B01003&g=0400000US24.050000&tid=ACSDT5Y2015.B01003

New:

https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=B01003&g=0400000US24%240500000&tid=ACSDT5Y2018.B01003

Right now I don't know if this is permanent or there will be other changes, so I am not going to revise the tutorial. I may do so in the future if I have more information.