Would the stimulus checks and the advanced child tax credits that were issued in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic be included in the income data reported in the 2021 1-year ACS estimates? The 2021 ACS dictionary lists 8 types of income, with the last…
The most likely explanation is one of timing. Many prisons populations fell dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Certainly the 2019 and 2020 ACS data--which would have been benchmarked to 2010 Census--would not have caught up with that change.
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Don't want to go down a rabbit hole on HUD stuff, the table they use is B19113 (took me over an hour to find the webpage that lists which table);
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il.html#faq_2023:~:text=The%20basis%20for%20HUD%E2%80%99s%20median…
Hello everyone,
I was wondering whether ACS data on inequality measures such as the Gini coefficient, median income by quintiles for counties with +65,000 inhabitants will be published for 2020. I could not find anything in the experimental data release…
If they follow the usual schedule (which I don't know because of COVID), the 2020 data products (2020 1-year and 2016-2020 5-yr) should be using 2020 Census geography vintages. They don't re-release old data with the updated geography boundaries because…
The Census Bureau released its first blog in the American Community Survey Blog Series, Adapting the American Community Survey Amid COVID-19. In this series, Census Bureau experts will discuss how the pandemic affected data collection for the American…
The U.S. Census Bureau is partnering with the American Statistical Association (ASA) for the Annual Data Challenge Expo. Contestants are challenged to analyze the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates using statistical and visualization…
David
"Not to be too humorous but one question could be how many garbage trucks you need on September 2nd to pick up all the junk that people put out on the sidewalk over the weekend." As it happens, this question did originate from our solid…
Hi Monica,
Our most important job is releasing quality data on America’s people and economy. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on American Community Survey (ACS) data collection, we made the decision earlier this year not to release standard…