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Does `interpolate_pw` use population-weighted areal interpolation?

Open kaseyzapatka opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Hi @walkerke,

Just wanted to flag a small discrepancy in documentation between your book and the tidycensus documentation.

In chapter 7 of your book, it suggests that the 'tidycensus' function, interpolate_pw, uses population-weighted areal interpolation, but this isn't clear from the tidycensus reference documentation. I think you mentioned to me in a Census slack that it does, but wanted to confirm/harmonize the documentation.

kaseyzapatka avatar May 23 '24 20:05 kaseyzapatka

Yes it does! I'll clarify this in the docs.

walkerke avatar Jun 06 '24 11:06 walkerke