A single record returned by the Census Data API. The API returns a 2D JSON array — this schema describes one inner array (one record) whose elements align positionally with the header row.
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/us-census-bureau/main/json-schema/census-data-row-schema.json",
"title": "CensusDataRow",
"description": "A single record returned by the Census Data API. The API returns a 2D JSON array — this schema describes one inner array (one record) whose elements align positionally with the header row.",
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Cell value. The Census Data API encodes all cell values as JSON strings even when numeric; consumers must coerce types using the variable dictionary at /{vintage}/{dataset}/variables.json."
},
"minItems": 1,
"examples": [
["California", "39538223", "06"],
["Texas", "29145505", "48"]
]
}
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