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  • 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…

  • RE: Tribal Census Tract Demographic Data

    It sounds like you found the raw GIS boundary files. There are also files that have ACS summary data attached. You can find those at: www.census.gov/.../tiger-data.html

  • RE: Relationship table between ACS questions and AFF tables

    This is an interesting question. The text of the question you are citing (P31) is taken from the ACS instrument. You can find a copy on the Census website, e.g., www.census.gov/.../Quest13.pdf. The weird long table numbers in the American Fact Finder…

  • Comment on Message from Arancha Lattanzio

    Are you trying to download ALL of the files (i.e. a complete set of the downloadable summary files), or just a select set of block groups through FactFinder? Also - what table and/or variables are you looking for?

  • 2018 American Community Survey Data Release Schedule

    2018 American Community Survey 1-year Estimates

    The 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates will start being released on Thursday, September 26, 2019.  These data will be available for the nation, all states, the District of Columbia, Puerto…

  • Fixed Sequence_Number_and_Table_Number.xls for ACS2013_1Yr

    We script the importing of ACS summary files into SQL databases based on the Sequence_Number_and_Table_Number_Lookup.xls. In the process of importing the ACS2013_1Yr, we found that some sequence numbers and starting numbers in the lookup Excel file and…

  • RE: PUMA 2012 to Metropolitan Statistical Area

    You can use Geocorr to generate correspondence files for pretty much any pair of census geographies from the same time period, including PUMAs to metro areas (i.e. core-based statistical areas, which include both metropolitan and micropolitan areas).

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  • Webinar on accessing IPUMS NHGIS in R (with a focus on ACS data)

    IPUMS is hosting a webinar next week that may be of interest to many on this forum... 

    Accessing NHGIS Data in R
    March 5, 2024; 1:00pm CT
    Register for Free Webinar

    IPUMS NHGIS provides easy access to summary tables and time series of population, housing, agriculture…

  • LIVE TODAY: Take an Early Look at our New Dissemination Platform!

    Today we are excited to announce a major milestone related to data dissemination.

    While we are still in the early stages of our Census Enterprise Dissemination Services and Consumer Innovation (CEDSCI) program, this week we have come one step closer to…

  • LIVE TODAY: Take an Early Look at our New Dissemination Platform!

    Today we are excited to announce a major milestone related to data dissemination.

    While we are still in the early stages of our Census Enterprise Dissemination Services and Consumer Innovation (CEDSCI) program, this week we have come one step closer to…

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