We are pleased to announce the release of the 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates, the most relied-on source for up-to-date social, economic, and housing information every year. The ACS is the only source of local statistics for most…
Thank you for your feedback about the lack of documentation on these language table changes. We updated the following pages to document the geographic restrictions for Table B16001:
The Appendices for ACS Summary Files (available here) include a field called "Geography Restrictions" that often but not always indicates when tables have data for only a limited set of summary levels. This is one of many cases where the appendices…
Hi friends,
I'm looking at the 2018 release schedule for this fall's ACS data. My understanding is that the "Data Profiles" means tables that start with "DP", "Detailed Tables" mean the base tables (tables whose ID starts with "B"), and the the…
Hi Colton,
The ACS began in 2005, so the first 5-year estimate available is for 2005-2009. ACS data "before 2009" could only refer to 1-year estimates that cover that same range range, 2005-2009, and as you've found, are not available at the tract-level…
While working with the H056001 variable (Median Contract Rent [dollars]) at the census tract level from Summary File 3 of the 2000 Census, I noticed there are "jam values" in the data of "2000+" and "100-". It is unclear to me whether a jam value of …