the smallest boundary in the 1-year acs files is public use microdata area (puma), but the 3- and 5-year public use microdata samples (pums) go down to some counties, i believe..
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/guidance_for_data_users/estimates/ i think you just need to download the census bureau's shapefiles for the geography you want to map http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html at the point you have a shapefile and you have created the data that you actually want to map, maybe start exploring your mapping options in R here-- http://flowingdata.com/category/visualization/mapping/ there's lots of people working with the ACS in R http://www.asdfree.com/search/label/american%20community%20survey%20%28acs%29 http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/UScensus2010/UScensus2010.pdf http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/acs/acs.pdf On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Chris Schatschneider <sch...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello all - does anyone know if there is a package in R that will allow me > to create a map of the US (or individual states) that uses the American > Community Survey PUMS boundaries? > > Thanks > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
