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  • 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…

  • Message from Jonathan Lupton

    I am particularly interested in using ACS data to make small-area population estimates. While it's easy to count housing units, there are constant changes in household size and occupancy that can affect population size. So far, the ACS has helped me with…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2011-2015 American Community Survey 5-Year PUMS Files and Variance Replicate Estimate Tables

    2011-2015 ACS 5-Year PUMS Files

    We are pleased to announce the release of the 2011-2015 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files. 

    The ACS 5-year PUMS files show the full range of population and housing unit responses…

  • Extreme Values for Race-Specific Unemployment Rates

    Hi all,

    New here!  I've been lurking for a couple of months as I try to get myself familiarized with the quirks of working with ACS data.  But I have run into a problem with some perplexing estimates in some key variables used in my research, and I…

  • 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…

  • RE: Journey to Work question: are ridehailing apps like uber & lyft considered "taxicab" or "other means" for Table B08301?

    Coincidentally, we were looking at the same topic yesterday ourselves. I think this is an ambiguous area, maybe more than I realized. Firstly, Uber, Lyft and ridehail services generally are no where mentioned in the ACS questionnaire or definitions…

  • Early release materials for 2015 ACS 1-year Supplemental Estimates now AVAILABLE

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2015 ACS 1-year Supplemental Estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, October 20, 2016. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare for next week…

  • RE: Median family income question

    Bill

    If you are trying compare change in income on a one-to-one basis, I'd recommend adjusting any income levels you use to the same point in time. It could be 2016 or it could even be 2018. If you make this adjustment using ACS guidelines for comparing…

  • RE: Are the MOEs for two mutually exclusive & completely exhaustive percentages equal?

    Have you taken a look at DP04? They have percentages of households with vehicles although they're broken down into several variables by vehicle count. Each percentage variable obviously has a corresponding MOE.

    My [very basic] hunch is that the MOEs…

  • RE: ACS vs Census populations at the ZCTA level

    You must keep in mind that the data is collected continuously. About 1/5 of the sample was collected in 2008, 1/5 in 2009 and so on. The Bureau stresses that it is not an average. It has a 5 year sampling frame. The sample size over the 5 years is still…
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