voter-demographics

Getting setup

mkvirtualenv voter-demographics
pip install -r requirements.txt

Getting the data

curl -O http://thedataweb.rm.census.gov/pub/cps/supps/nov12pub.zip
unzip nov12pub.zip
in2csv -s schema.csv nov12pub.dat > nov12pub.csv
csvcut -c pwsswgt,gestfips,ptdtrace,pehspnon,pesex,prtage,pes1,pes2,pes3,pes4,pes5,pes6,pes7,pes8 nov12pub.csv > data.csv
python make_readable.py
python analyze.py

Output is states.csv.

Note: this file does not include margin-of-error calculations. See the Census Bureau documentation for details on how to calculate this for each derived statistic. In many cases the error can be quite large.

Sources

• CPS Data Download FTP
• National Bureau of Economic Research schema files for CPS data

Documentation

• Census Bureau Docs for CPS Voter Supplement