census_parameters.py

census_dictionary = {
    # Structure: code: [Name, Reporting Schedule]
    "vip": ["Construction Spending", "monthly"],
    "ressales": ["New Home Sales", "monthly"],
    "resconst": ["New Residential Construction", "monthly"],
    "mwts": ["Monthly Wholesale Trade Inventories", "monthly"],
    "marts": ["Advance Monthly Retail Sales", "monthly"],
    "mtis": ["Monthly Trade & Inventory Sales", "monthly"],
    "mrts": ["Monthly Retail Sales", "monthly"],
    "advm3": ["Advance Report on Durable Goods", "monthly"],
    "m3": ["Manufacturer’s Shipments Inventories & Orders", "monthly"],
    "ftd": ["International Trade", "monthly"],
    "hv": ["Housing Vacancies & Homeownership Rate", "quarterly"],
    "qss": ["Quarterly Services", "quarterly"],
    "qfr": ["Quarterly Financial Report", "quarterly"],
    "bfs": ["Business Formation Statistics", "quarterly"]
}


def get_census_codes():
    census_codes = census_dictionary.keys()
    return census_codes