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/*
 * Copyright (C) 2013 Information Management Services, Inc.
 */
package com.imsweb.algorithms.censustractpovertyindicator;

/**
 * The purpose of the CensusTractPovertyIndicatorDataProvider is to get the poverty indicator for provided year category, state of dx, county of dx, and census tract
 * either from the database or csv lookup based on the implementation
 * 
 * Created on Oct 18, 2013 by bekeles
 * @author bekeles
 */
public interface CensusTractPovertyIndicatorDataProvider {
    
    String YEAR_CATEGORY_1 = "1";
    String YEAR_CATEGORY_2 = "2";
    String YEAR_CATEGORY_3 = "3";
    String YEAR_CATEGORY_4 = "4";

    /**
     * Returns census tract poverty indicator for provided year category, state of dx, county of dx, and census tract.
     * 
     * Created Oct 18, 2013 by bekeles
     * @param yearCatagory year category
     * @param state state at DX
     * @param county county at DX
     * @param censusTract census tract (2000 or 2010)
     * @return the corresponding census tract poverty indicator
     */
    String getPovertyIndicator(String yearCatagory, String state, String county, String censusTract);

}