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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Sarah Teel over 9 years ago

I use 3-year estimates for almost everything. Vermont has small counties-in a small state. And a couple more releases would have really helped with being able to look at any kind of trend; 1 year just doesn't work for that here, and I'll be waiting for ever for enough non-overlapping 5-year sets to do that. Thanks Mark for the heads-up!
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Sarah Teel over 9 years ago

I use 3-year estimates for almost everything. Vermont has small counties-in a small state. And a couple more releases would have really helped with being able to look at any kind of trend; 1 year just doesn't work for that here, and I'll be waiting for ever for enough non-overlapping 5-year sets to do that. Thanks Mark for the heads-up!
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