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…
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 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…
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…
My understanding (and I am not a demographer unlike Beth) is that the Census population projections do miss the local population dynamics when it is caused by very localized effects. I remember a presentation at one of the ACS conferences that showed…
I am conducting some analysis using the 2020 ACS PUMS, and one evaluation is the changes in the number of initial addresses selected by states. I did a simple comparison of the numbers in 2020 to the numbers in 2019. I noticed a significant difference…
No I am referring to their webinar on the new estimate methods. They are more less ignoring much of the 2020 Census--
OMG they aren't NEARLY NOR REMOTELY similar. BRFSS has always been a phone survey, so the impact of COVID was close to none -- if anything, response rates crept up a little bit for the late spring / summer of 2020 when people stayed home and were…
Webinar: ACS Operations Update and Data User Applications in Response to the Pandemic
Join us for a webinar on June 25, 2020 from 1:00-2:00 PM EDT.
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6829227656490323214
The coronavirus has had wide-ranging effects…