NAME

Geo::Demo::Zipskinny - Census 2000 geographic and demographic data by ZIP code, courtesy of ZIPskinny.com

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
use Geo::Demo::Zipskinny;
my $zip = new Geo::Demo::Zipskinny();
#get the stats page from zipskinny.com over the network
my $stats = $zip->get('90232');
#alternatively, read a local copy
#my $stats = $zip->parse($html);
#population of the zip code
my $pop   = $stats->{'general'}{'population'};
#fractions 0-1 inclusive
my $asian = $stats->{'race'}{'Asian'};
my $k250  = $stats->{'income'}{'200000+'};
my $asian_count = $pop * $asian;
my $k250_count  = $pop * $k250;
use Data::Dumper;
print Data::Dumper::Dumper( $stats );
            
          

DESCRIPTION

Use this for quick access to some ZIP code centric demographic data. ZIPskinny.com claims to have built the site from the Census 2000 data freely available from http://census.gov.

I chose to write this screen scraper after several unproductive hours spent poring over the (copious and dry) census docs and unsuccessfully trying to grok the SF3 files.

AUTHOR

Allen Day, <allenday@ucla.edu>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2008 by Allen Day

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.