census.acs5_state does not work for years from 2010-2015

[xzhou56]

To whom it may concern:

I am trying to use census.acs5_state and census.acs5_state_place. They only worked well for the year 2009 and 2016, but not working for years from 2010 to 2015. Is there anything wrong with these years?

Thanks.

[semcogli]

Could you post your codes and error message?

[xzhou56]

Sure.
c.acs5.state('B01001_004E', '*',year=2015)
if changing the year to 2009 or 2016, it works.

The same issue happened to state_place:
c.acs5.state_place(tuple(varlist),'','',year=2010)

Error message:
CensusException: <title>Error report</title><style></style>

HTTP Status 404 - /data/2010/acs5

---

type Status report

message /data/2010/acs5

description The requested resource is not available.

---

[semcogli]

it works for me. Requests for years from 10 to 15 returned data as normal. Not sure what happens there. one thing you can try is to reinstall your census library and see if that helps. Best regards.

c.acs5.state('B01001_004E', '*',year=2015)
[{'B01001_004E': 156380.0, 'state': '01'},
{'B01001_004E': 26276.0, 'state': '02'},
{'B01001_004E': 231249.0, 'state': '04'},
{'B01001_004E': 103613.0, 'state': '05'},
{'B01001_004E': 1295030.0, 'state': '06'},

[xzhou56]

Thanks. I uninstalled and re-installed, but it still didn't work for me.

So I went back to census API document, we found that, the api call for 2009 data is a little different from all other years.
In 2009: api.census.gov/data/2009/acs5?
But in other years: https://api.census.gov/data/2011/acs/acs5?

I don't know if this affects your library but wanna share here just in case someone else has a similar issue like me.

[semcogli]

the issue you mentioned has been taken cared of, I believe,
https://github.com/datamade/census/blob/master/census/core.py
line 278, you can see the endpoint url switches depends on the years you are querying.
you can check your local file and see if it is correct.

[palewire]

I upgraded to the latest version and this was fixed for me.