Arkansas 2023 Select Language Data from the American Community Survey (2019-2023) at the County level

##Redistricting Data Hub (RDH) Retrieval Date
03/19/25

##Sources
ACS data retrieved using the Census API: https://api.census.gov/data/2023/acs/acs5
Boundary shapefile retrieved from the Census Cartographic Boundary File website: https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/carto-boundary-file.2023.html

##Fields
Field Name Description                                                                   
GEOID      Unique Geographic Identifier                                                  
STATEFP    State FIPS                                                                    
STATE      State Name                                                                    
COUNTYFP   County FIPS                                                                   
COUNTY     County Name                                                                   
TOT_POP23  Total population (B06007_001E)                                                
ENG_ONLY23 Speak only English population (B06007_002E)                                   
SPANISH23  Speak Spanish total population (B06007_003E)                                  
SP_EN_VW23 Speak Spanish and speak English "very well" population (B06007_004E)          
SP_EN_LW23 Speak Spanish and speak English less than "very well" population (B06007_005E)
OTH_LANG23 Speak other languages total population (B06007_006E)                          
OT_EN_VW23 Speak other languages and speak English "very well" (B06007_007E)             
OT_EN_LW23 Speak other languages and speak English less than "very well" (B06007_008E)   

##Processing
ACS data for Arkansas was retrieved with a Python script from the Census API.
The county data is available for all counties in Arkansas. The script extracted the data for all counties in Arkansas. 
Each field represents an estimate from the Census for a particular variable, as noted in the Fields section above.
The data were then merged on the GEOID with a corresponding TIGER shapefile.

##Additional Notes
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