This readme file was generated on 2025-02-11 by Alexandra Provo and Jiebei Luo


GENERAL INFORMATION


Title of Dataset: Consumer Historical Dataset


Publisher: Data Axle (formerly Info Group)


Date of data collection: 2006-2024


Geographic location of data collection: United States


SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION


Access is restricted to NYU users only. For more information, see the Consumer Historical Research Guide (https://guides.nyu.edu/consumer_historical). Access is further restricted by status: Undergraduate students - completing a capstone, graduate students, staff, faculty, visiting scholar/scholar-in-residence


To request access to the data files, you will need to:
1. Complete a Data Management Plan using our template in DMPTool (https://dmptool.org/plan_from_funder_requirements?org_autocomplete%5Bfunder_id%5D=78&org_autocomplete%5Bfunder_name%5D=New+York+University+%28nyu.edu%29&org_autocomplete%5Bid%5D=78&org_autocomplete%5Bname%5D=New+York+University+%28nyu.edu%29&plan%5Btemplate_id%5D=1636). You can login with your NetID and password by selecting the institutional login. Export your data management plan as a PDF, you will need to attach it in the next step. If you are an undergraduate student who is not working on a capstone project, skip this step and go to #2.
2. Submit Terms of Use Form (https://nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cTHBlyCyaKa3F5k), indicating Consumer Historical data is limited to use for personal academic research purposes only. 


DATA DESCRIPTION & SOURCES


Data Axle (formerly known as Infogroup) Consumer Historical data consists of information about households within the United States, including aspects like household income, home value, years in residence and location. For the full list of variables, see the data dictionary provided.


The data is compiled from data provided by more than 100 sources including real estate, tax assessments, voter registrations, utility connections, bill processors and more. The historical files are available from 2006 to 2024. New data are added each calendar year. This README file and the accompanying metadata record will be updated with each data accrual.


DATA & FILE OVERVIEW


Documentation
Documentation files are made available:
* Historical Residential File.pdf: Product brochure
* Historical Residential File Layout_2024.csv: data dictionary with the following information for each field/column: Order, Header Field Name, InfoGroup Field Definition [variable name], Output Field Description, Output Value Set, Type
* Consumer_Historical_FileList.csv: granular file listing including parent directory, file name, and size in GB


File List


Data is provided in separate CSV files for each state, and all states for one year are in a zipped folder. The CSV files are named with two-letter state abbreviations. Note that in many files, the following fields may not contain any data:


FIELD25 (MSA2000_CODE)
FIELD26 (MSA2000_IDENTIFIER)
FIELD27 (CSA2000_CODE)


The following zip files are available (size is given in GB):


CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2006.zip
6.007
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2007.zip
6.340
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2008.zip
6.238
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2009.zip
6.282
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2010.zip
6.301
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2011.zip
6.798
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2012.zip
7.132
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2013.zip
8.441
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2014.zip
8.257
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2015.zip
5.671
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2016.zip
5.879
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2017.zip
8.308
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2018.zip
8.706
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2019.zip
9.218
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2020.zip
9.287
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2021.zip
9.173
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2022.zip
8.829
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2023.zip
8.347
CONSUMER_HISTORICAL_2024.zip
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