2017-2021 ACS 5-Year Selected Population Tables and American Indian and Alaska Native Tables
We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of new American Community Survey (ACS) estimates for detailed race, Hispanic Origin, ancestry, and tribal population groups. These statistics, available from the 2017-2021 ACS 5-year Selected Population Tables (SPT) and American Indian and Alaska Native Tables (AIANT), are scheduled for release on Thursday, June 15, 2023.
The new documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare for next week's data release by exploring:
Estimates from these tables provide the greatest level of statistical information for detailed population groups. This is the third release of these data since the original release based on the 2006-2010 American Community Survey.
2017-2021 ACS 5-Year SPT and AIANT Pre-Release Webinar
The U.S. Census Bureau is hosting a pre-release webinar ahead of the embargo of new 2017-2021 ACS 5-year Selected Population Tables and American Indian and Alaska Native Tables. The webinar will show participants how to access data through data.census.gov for American Indian and Alaska Native tribes, as well as for hundreds of detailed race, Hispanic origin, tribal and ancestry populations at multiple levels of geography, including census tracts. These tables allow for an in-depth look at populations beyond those covered in the annual one-year and five-year American Community Survey products.
Date & Time: Thursday, June 8 from 2:00-3:30 PM ET
Link to Register: 2017-2021 AIAN and Selected Population Tables Pre-Release (census.gov)
When you say race and Hispanic Origin, ACS tables are still only for the following groups, right?
White non-Hispanic
Black (including Hispanic)
Asian (including Hispanic)
etc
When I look at most ACS tables, White is the only race available for non-Hispanic. For example, poverty status, s1701, only has White non-Hispanic. No other non-Hispanic. https://data.census.gov/table?q=poverty&tid=ACSST1Y2021.S1701
Will ACS tables at some time have data for other groups, non-Hispanic, at some time?
A timely, on-target question, Gene. In discussions with other metro and state demographers, this is one question we've identified for USCB's attention as a follow-on to (anticipated) new major race groups are adopted by OMB!
After new major race groups are adopted by OMB - and if Hispanicity will be treated on par as all other major race groups (but I don't know - this is my conjecture) - then are White Hispanics and Black Hispanics (for example, Dominicans) binned with "Two or More Races"? Or will ACSO detemine an entirely new regime for ACS "race iteration" tables?
--Todd Graham
Metropolitan Council Research
Thanks for the response. Why wouldn't the groups be like this?
Black non-Hispanic
Asian non-Hispanic
(other single race groups) non-Hispanic
Multiple race groups non-Hispanic
Hispanic