ballstatecber/cber-data-grabber

CBER Data Grabber

CBER Data Grabber

A set of classes used by the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research County Profiles website for pulling data from US federal data APIs., _(*1)

Installing via Composer

composer require ballstatecber/cber-data-grabber:dev-master

ACS Updater (American Community Survey, US Census Bureau)

Make sure you first have a US Census Bureau API Key., _(*2)

Getting processed data and saving it to a CSV file:, _(*3)

ACSUpdater::setAPIKey('api key goes here');
$year = '2013';
$stateId = '18'; // Indiana
$category = ACSUpdater::$POPULATION_AGE;
$processedData = ACSUpdater::getCountyData($year, $stateId, $category);
$fileName = date('Y-m-d').'_processed_county_'.$categoryName.'_'.$stateId.'_'.$year.'-00-00.csv';
ACSUpdater::writeProcessedCSV($processedData, $fileName);

Getting raw data and saving it to a CSV file:, _(*4)

ACSUpdater::setAPIKey('api key goes here');
$year = '2013';
$stateId = '18'; // Indiana
$category = ACSUpdater::$POPULATION_AGE;
$rawData = ACSUpdater::getRawCountyData($year, $stateId, $category);
$fileName = date('Y-m-d').'_raw_county_'.$categoryName.'_data_'.$stateId.'_'.$year.'-00-00.csv';
ACSUpdater::writeRawCSV($rawData, $fileName, $map);

CSV files are saved in the same directory that executes this script., _(*5)

Available data categories:, _(*6)

• ACSUpdater::$POPULATION_AGE
• ACSUpdater::$HOUSEHOLD_INCOME
• ACSUpdater::$ETHNIC_MAKEUP
• ACSUpdater::$EDUCATIONAL_ATTAINMENT
• ACSUpdater::$INEQUALITY_INDEX

BEA Updater (Bureau of Economic Analysis)

Example for saving data to a CSV file:, _(*7)

BEAUpdater::setAPIKey('api key goes here');
$year = '2014';
$stateId = '18'; // Indiana
BEAUpdater::updateAllCountyData($year, $stateId);
BEAUpdater::updateCountyData($year, $stateID, BEAUpdater::$WAGES, true);

BLS Updater (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Example for saving data to a CSV file:, _(*8)

$endYear = '2013';
$stateID = '18'; // Indiana
BLSUpdater::updateAllCountyData($stateID, $endYear);