B02001 is Race, which includes population. 001E looks suspiciously like the sort of table designator you find in the downloaded summary file version of the ACS 5 year data. B02001_001 is the total population there, but I have no idea what the E is for.

Mara Kaminowitz, GISP
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From: Ennis, Samuel [mailto:sennis@cambridgema.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:47 PM
To: ctpp-news@ryoko.chrispy.net
Subject: [CTPP] API Request Table Codes

I’ve noticed that the table codes used in the API requests don’t seem to match the table codes used in the table master lists or in American Fact Finder. For example the ACS 5-year table number for “Total Population” is B01003, but in the examples of API requests here the table number used to fetch population statistics for California and New York is B02001_001E, which the master list would have me believe is the table code for race (plus the “_001E” which I’m mystified by).

Is there a separate list of table IDs that the API recognizes / am I using the wrong lists?

Sam Ennis