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2019-11-05

Modes Less Traveled - Bicycling and Walking to Work in the United States: 2008-2012

This week's data is from the ACS Survey. The article and underlying data can be found at the Census Website. The PDF report is also available for download if you'd like to try reading in some of the embedded tables.

Please note that the raw excel files are uploaded (6 total), along with the cleaned/tidy data (commute.csv). There is also a cleaned up version of Table 3 from the article, which incorporates summary data around age, gender, race, children, income, and education for modes of travel (bike, walk, other). If you work with the ACS table 3 I'd suggest dplyr::slice() to grab the specific sub-tables from within it!

Get the data!

commute_mode <- readr::read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/master/data/2019/2019-11-05/commute.csv")

Data Dictionary

commute.csv

variable class description
city character City
state character State
city_size character City Size
* Small = 20K to 99,999
* Medium = 100K to 199,999
* Large = >= 200K
mode character Mode of transport, either walk or bike
n double N of individuals
percent double Percent of total individuals
moe double Margin of Error (percent)
state_abb character Abbreviated state name
state_region character ACS State region

Spoilers

Cleaning Script


# Load Packages -----------------------------------------------------------

library(tidyverse)
library(readxl)
library(here)
library(glue)
library(janitor)

# Read in Data ------------------------------------------------------------

table_num <- 1:6

# Generic read function for this dataset

supp_read <- function(number, ...){
  read_excel(here("2019", "2019-11-05", glue::glue("supplemental-table{number}.xlsx")), ...)
}

# 3 datasets for bikes, each of which has a corresponding City Size

small_bike <- supp_read(1, skip = 5) %>% 
  clean_names() %>% 
  mutate(city_size = "Small", 
         percentage_of_workers = as.numeric(percentage_of_workers),
         margin_of_error_2 = as.numeric(margin_of_error_2))

medium_bike <- supp_read(2, skip = 5) %>% 
  clean_names() %>% 
  mutate(city_size = "Medium")

large_bike <- supp_read(3, skip = 5) %>% 
  clean_names() %>% 
  mutate(city_size = "Large")

# Combine datasets

full_bike <- bind_rows(small_bike, medium_bike, large_bike) %>% 
  set_names(nm = c("city", "n", "percent", "moe", "city_size")) %>% 
  mutate(mode = "Bike")


# 3 datasets for walking, each of which has a corresponding City Size

small_walk <- supp_read(4, skip = 5) %>% 
  clean_names() %>% 
  mutate(city_size = "Small")

medium_walk <- supp_read(5, skip = 5) %>% 
  clean_names() %>% 
  mutate(city_size = "Medium")

large_walk <- supp_read(6, skip = 5) %>% 
  clean_names() %>% 
  mutate(city_size = "Large")

# Combine datasets

full_walk <- bind_rows(small_walk, medium_walk, large_walk) %>% 
  set_names(nm = c("city", "n", "percent", "moe", "city_size")) %>% 
  mutate(mode = "Walk")

# Built in state-level datasets
state_df <- tibble(
  state = state.name,
  state_abb = state.abb,
  state_region = as.character(state.region)
)

# Combine bike and walk data in tidy setup

full_commute <- 
  bind_rows(full_bike, full_walk) %>% 
  filter(!is.na(n),
         # There are some government-related areas that don't align with cities
         !str_detect(tolower(city), "government|goverment")) %>% 
  separate(city, into = c("city", "state"), sep = ", ") %>% 
  select(city, state, city_size, mode, everything()) %>% 
  left_join(state_df, by = c("state"))

full_commute %>% 
  write_csv(here("2019", "2019-11-05", "commute.csv"))

# ACS Data ----------------------------------------------------------------

acs_data <- read_csv(here("2019", "2019-11-05", "table_3.csv"))

age_data <- acs_data %>% 
  slice(1:6)

gender_data <- acs_data %>% 
  slice(9:10) %>% 
  rename("gender" = age)

race_data <- acs_data %>% 
  slice(13:18) %>% 
  rename("race" = age)

children_data <- acs_data %>% 
  slice(21:24) %>% 
  rename("children" = age)

income_data <- acs_data %>% 
  slice(27:36) %>% 
  rename("income" = age)

education_data <- acs_data %>% 
  slice(39:43) %>% 
  rename("education" = age)