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diff --git a/datasets/businv/README.md b/datasets/businv/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..106f758 --- /dev/null +++ b/datasets/businv/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +# Total Business Inventories + +Monthly total business inventories from the US Census. Data retrieved from +[this direct +url](https://www.census.gov/mtis/www/data/text/mtis-inventory.txt) on +2019-09-11. We use the unadjusted time series to maintain the seasonal +component. + +According to [this +page](https://web.archive.org/web/20191120160410/https://ask.census.gov/prweb/PRServletCustom/YACFBFye-rFIz_FoGtyvDRUGg1Uzu5Mn*/!STANDARD?pyActivity=pyMobileSnapStart&ArticleID=KCP-4726) +on the US Census website, we are allowed to redistribute the data as part of +this repository. + +Source: United States Census Bureau, URL: https://www.census.gov, Retrieved: +2019-09-11. + +To create the ``businv.json`` file from the raw ``mtis-inventory.txt`` file, +simply run: + +``` +$ python convert.py mtis-inventory.txt businv.json +``` + + |