• U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2017-2021 ACS 5-Year Estimates

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2017-2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, the most relied-on source for up-to-date social, economic, housing, and demographic information every year. The ACS is the only source of local statistics…

  • 2014-2018 5-year Summary Files at block group level

    Hi guys,

    I've been an ACS user for a while, but still struggling to find desired data with the new interface. I am looking to download 2014-2018 summary files at the block group level for a particular state or county.

    I've downloaded the Missouri_Tracts_Block_Groups_Only…

  • Reading 2020 Census DHC data into R

    For those of you working on today's release of DHC data from the 2020 Census, here's some R code that will combine the different segments of the DHC summary file and create one dataset with all the tables, with the columns named just like they are in…

  • 2017 ACS Data Release Schedule

     

    2017 American Community Survey 1-year Estimates

    The 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates will be released on Thursday, September 13, 2018.  These data will be available for the nation, all states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico…

  • 2015 ACS Release Schedule Announced

    2015 ACS Release Schedule Announced

    2015 ACS 1-Year Estimates 

    The 2015 ACS 1-year estimates will be released on Thursday, September 15, 2016. These data will be available for the nation, all states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, every congressional…

  • RE: Zipcode - State Relationship

    One approach would be to use the ZIP-County crosswalk provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

    www.huduser.gov/.../usps_crosswalk.html

    Counties are entirely nested within states, so you could use the crosswalk to match each ZCTA…

  • 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…

  • RE: Calculating MOEs from derived ACS estimates

    We currently follow the “>15% CV use with caution” standard recommended by the Compass Guides in our office but I have been doing a little research to explore the idea using of tiered reliability categories especially for working with small area estimates…

  • RE: ACS vs Census populations at the ZCTA level

    Gene,

    both sets of numbers are subject to various errors, and even the Census figure is not something written in stone. See the famous diagram from Groves (2004), poq.oxfordjournals.org/.../F3.large.jpg.

    The Census data is subject to undercoverage and…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2015-2019 ACS 5-Year Estimates

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2015-2019 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, the most relied-on source for up-to-date social, economic, housing, and demographic information every year. The ACS is the only source of local statistics…

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