Creating Tables with TPL (Table Producing Language)

摘要

Table producing Language (TPL) was developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as a tool to meet their large publishing demands for statistical tables and data analysis. To meet it's own large publishing demands, EIA has incorporated TPL as one of it's methods to produce statistical tables. TPL is a flexible, computer-based system designed to select, format, tabulate, and display data. The user specifies the horizontal (row) and vertical (column) headings, input data, and content of a table, but does not encode the actual logic to create the table. The two basic elements of TPL are the codebook and the table request. The codebook describes the input data to be used in the table production. After a codebook has been created, you are ready to write the TPL request. The TPL request is the statements that together create a set of instructions that produce the table. (ERA citation 12:003224)