Census Bureau plans to stop production of 3-year ACS data

Mark Mather over 9 years ago

The Census Bureau is planning to discontinue the production of all 3-year ACS data, according to their 2015 budget justification document:

"The Census Bureau proposes to terminate permanently the “3-Year Data” Product. The Census Bureau intended to produce this data product for a few years when the ACS was a new survey. Now that the ACS has collected data for nearly a decade, this product can be discontinued without serious
impacts on the availability of the estimates for these communities."

www.osec.doc.gov/.../Census_2016_CJ.pdf

There have also been some emails circulating that mention the 2015 ACS Data Users Conference has been canceled but I want to assure everyone that this is not the case!

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Gene Shackman over 9 years ago

I find all of them useful, the 1 year, 3 year and 5 year, and so don't want to see any of them discontinued. But what's the process? At this point, it's just something the Census Bureau is proposing, right? Will there be a comment period, are population or statistical groups going to lobby to keep them, can we write to our congress people?
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Gene Shackman over 9 years ago

I find all of them useful, the 1 year, 3 year and 5 year, and so don't want to see any of them discontinued. But what's the process? At this point, it's just something the Census Bureau is proposing, right? Will there be a comment period, are population or statistical groups going to lobby to keep them, can we write to our congress people?
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