American Community Survey Data Users Group

2025 ACS DATA USERS CONFERENCE

May 29, 2025 (Virtual)

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The 2025 conference will bring together ACS data users and U.S. Census Bureau staff to share information about key ACS data issues and applications. The conference will include:

Contributed presentations by ACS data users
Invited plenary panels
Breakout sessions
Lightning sessions

PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Session Title	Time (EDT)	Moderator	Presenter(s)	Presentation Title
Welcome/ Introduction	10:00 AM - 10:15 AM		Diana Elliott, PRB Donna Daily, U.S. Census Bureau
Opening Remarks	10:15 AM - 10:30 AM		Ron Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
What’s New with the American Community Survey Program	10:30 AM - 11:30 AM	Diana Ellliott, PRB	Donna Daily, Kanin Reese, and Lacey Loftin, U.S. Census Bureau
How Data Users Leverage the ACS for Outcomes	11:30 AM - 12:45 PM	Joel Alvarez, NYC Department of City Planning	Thomas Bryan, BryanGeoDemo Melinda Vonstein, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission Rodolfo Gutierrez, HACER Bob Coats, North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management
Break	12:45 PM - 1:00 PM
Using the API	1:00 PM-2:20 PM	Emily Harris, Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah	Anna Vasylytsya, U.S. Census Bureau	Streamlining ACS Data: The Case for Tidy Data
			Fabio Correa Duran, Qiuchang Cao, Caitria DeLucchi, Rebekah Carpenter, and Dawn C. Carr, Florida State University	Spec files as tools to maintain and extend ACS API queries
			Benjamin Taft, Higher Expectations for Racine County	A pipeline for tracking community-defined systems indicators using the ACS API and R
			Jan Vink, Cornell University	A flexible Excel tool to retrieve ACS data
Data Products Demonstration	1:00 PM-2:20 PM	Erica Maurer, New York City Department of City Planning	Tyson Weister, U.S. Census Bureau Sam Patton, U.S. Census Bureau Maria Valdisera, U.S. Census Bureau Caleb Hopler, U.S. Census Bureau
Child Care and School Enrollment	1:00 PM-2:20 PM	Melanie Poulter, Tulsa Area United Way	Elli Nikolopoulos, Laura Jimenez Parra, Rebecca H. Berger, and Gina Adams, Urban Institute	Using the ACS and public data sources to map public benefits access and barriers in Georgia
			Rimsha Khan, Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York	Modeling the (Un)Affordability of Child Care and Out-of-School Care in New York City
			Jill Walsh and Cynthia Willner, CTData Collaborative	Using the ACS PUMS to Explore the Affordability of Market-Rate Child Care for Connecticut Families
			Leah Clark, U.S. Census Bureau; Quentin Brummet, NORC; Christopher Cleveland, Brown University; Thurston Domina, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Paul Hanselman, Emily Penner, and Andrew Penner, University of California-Irvine; Paul Yoo, Stanford University	Pandemic-Era Public School Disenrollment Across the Income Distribution
Break	2:20 PM - 2:30 PM
Synthetic Data	2:30 PM-3:50 PM	Bryan Grady, South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce	Joseph Tuccillo, Angela Cunningham, James Gaboardi, and Whitson Buck, Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Using Synthetic Populations to Model Travel Burdens among US Veterans Health Administration Patients
			Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota	The challenge of synthetic census microdata: A researcher perspective
			Ana Sanchez Rivera and Rae Ellis, U.S. Census Bureau	Leveraging Instrument Test Paradata: Strategies for Managing Sensitive Data Challenges
Lightning	2:30 PM-3:50 PM	Shondelle Wilson-Frederick, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute	Jill Janocha Redmond and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics	Remote Work and Productivity Growth 2019–2023
			Drew Rosebush and Oliver Leroy, CORI/RISI; Amanda Weinstein; Lindsey Elliot	Exploring quality of life metrics at county over time
			Ilham Dehry, Greg Acs, Linda Giannarelli, and Margaret Todd, Urban Institute	Measuring the True Cost of Economic Security: What Does It Take to Thrive, Not Just Survive, in the US Today?
			Martha Jones, Vanderbilt University; P. Tim Bushnell, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health	Estimating FTE denominators for injury rates by state and industry
			Kelyvette Ortiz Fontanez, Ana I. Sanchez Rivera, and Yazmin Garcia Trejo, U.S. Census Bureau	Developing a Low Response Score for Puerto Rico
			John Powers, Timothy Carey, Taylor Hargrove, Robert Bowers, Emily Pfaff, and Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Aubrey Limburg and Victoria Udalova, U.S. Census Bureau; Amy Shaheen, UNC Health Alliance	Caring for Communities: Comparing Health Care System Patient Populations to Regional Populations
			Brian Glassman, Lizzy Pelletier, and Adrienne DiTommaso, U.S. Census Bureau	The Inclusion of the Prison Population in Income and Poverty Estimates in the ACS
			Diana Lavery, Alberto Nieto, and Catherine McSorley, Esri	Assess Sensitivity to Margins of Error in Hot Spot Analysis
Housing	2:30 PM-3:50 PM	Keith Wiley, Housing Assistance Council	Brielle Bryan, Rice University	Locked Out of Place: How Neighborhood Level Factors Influence Housing Discrimination Against People with Felony Convictions
			Brandon Stanaway, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC); Seth Williams, Louisiana State University	Household Projections Using Estimated Household Formation Rates of Overcrowded Households
			Erik Gartland, Alicia Mazzara, and Will Fischer, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)	Where Households Using Federal Rental Assistance Live
			Natasha Moodie, Justin Sackey, Keith Wiley, and Lance George, Housing Assistance Council	Heirs’ Property in High-Needs Rural Regions
Break	3:50 PM - 4:00 PM
Combining ACS with Other Survey or Administrative Data	4:00 PM-5:20 PM	Monica Cruz, Texas Demographic Center	Jin Yao, Steve Yoder, and Shannon Porter, Johnson County Government, KS	Enhancing Population Estimates by Combining ACS and Local Data in Johnson County, KS
			William Brownsberger and Regina Fink, Massachusetts State Senate	Divergence between ACS reported rent burden and administrative data
			Camila Moreno and Katy Stigers, Fahe	Using Google Earth to Address Sampling Challenges of Manufactured Home Counts in Rural Places
			Jeffrey Morenoff and Noah Attal, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy; Christopher Dick, Demographic Analytics Advisors	Unaccounted Migration: How Non-Filers Affect IRS-Based Estimates of Domestic Migration
ACS Methods	4:00 PM-5:20 PM	Tricia Ruiz, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity	Hillary Steinberg, United States Census Bureau; Leann Weyl, Joy Barger, Brian Wilson, Greg Seymour, Imani Tene Morgan, and J. Taylor, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity	Testing Improvements to ACS Response through Design: Two Experiments in the Implementation Stage
			Benjamin Gurrentz, Anthony Knapp, and Isabelle Notter, U.S. Census Bureau	The U.S. Census Bureau’s Planning Database and Forthcoming Updates
			Dorothy Barth, U.S. Census Bureau	Using Administrative Records Data in the American Community Survey: Overview and Updates
			Luke Larsen, U.S. Census Bureau	Continuing to Revise the Census Bureau's Low Response Score
Using ACS Data for Planning	4:00 PM-5:20 PM	Jake Michael, Chester County (PA) Planning Commission	Tiffany Kindratt, Mercy Obasanya, Thanayi Lambert, and Kyrah K. Brown University of Texas at Arlington; Saeideh Fallah-Fini, CalPolyPomona; Deneen Robinson, TRUTH Pregnancy Resource Center; Michael K. Lemke, UTHealth Houston, School of Public Health San Antonio	Leveraging ACS data to address racial disparities in maternal health: preliminary quantitative steps in a system dynamics group model building project in Texas
			Pei Yang Hsieh, Kate Kelsey, Jennifer Para-MacDougall, Zachary Robinson, and Mandeep Sidhu, County of Santa Clara	Mapping ACS demographic data to assess extreme heat vulnerability in Santa Clara County
			Erica Maurer, Joel Alvarez, and Peter Lobo, New York City Department of City Planning	The Case for Greater Detail in ACS Summary File Languages
			R. Chase Sawyer, Bethany DeSalvo, Heather King, Joey Marshall, and Sandra Clark, U.S. Census Bureau	How is ACS Data Being Used at the Census Bureau to Support Disaster Recovery?
Closing Remarks	5:20 PM - 5:30 PM		Diana Elliott, PRB Donna Daily, U.S. Census Bureau

We will update this page with session recordings and copies of presentations shortly after the conference.

If you have questions about the ACS Conference, please contact Diana Elliott (delliott@prb.org) or Mark Mather (mmather@prb.org).