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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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  • over 9 years ago
    It is worth noting that the concerns about margin-of-error on the 5-year products are more a problem of population and sample size for small jurisdictions, and less a problem of the 3-year versus 5-year aggregations.

    Larger sample size might allow the Census Bureau to provide finer geographic detail in the 1-year products and would surely improve accuracy in the 5-year.

    And (in reply to Oleh) - the Census Bureau just completed an exercise to investigate eliminating questions. That has a much broader impact and is generally not well received in the data user community. Every question has an important purpose.
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  • over 9 years ago
    It is worth noting that the concerns about margin-of-error on the 5-year products are more a problem of population and sample size for small jurisdictions, and less a problem of the 3-year versus 5-year aggregations.

    Larger sample size might allow the Census Bureau to provide finer geographic detail in the 1-year products and would surely improve accuracy in the 5-year.

    And (in reply to Oleh) - the Census Bureau just completed an exercise to investigate eliminating questions. That has a much broader impact and is generally not well received in the data user community. Every question has an important purpose.
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