U.S. Census Bureau Releases Documentation Supporting the 2013-2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates

We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2013-2017 American Community Survey 5-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, December 6, 2018. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare for next week's data release.

New and updated information related to this release is available now on the 2017 Data Release page.

Highlights include links to the following:

• The Table and Geography Changes page explains new and modified tables.
• The Summary File Documentation page includes new 5-year files for the appendix, sequence number/table number lookup files, SAS programs, and macros.
• The Code Lists, Definitions, and Accuracy page includes new instructions for applying statistical testing to the ACS 5-year data.