• 2016-2020 ACS 5-year Estimates

    Changes to Tables for the 2016-2020 ACS 5-year Release

    Visit 2020 Table and Geography Changes for a list and description of all new, modified, and deleted tables as well as information on changes to geography.

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  • RE: How useful are the 5-year Estimates, really?

    Thank you for responding!

    I used second link as a guide before I posted my question, but I never came across the Appendix pdf, so thanks for this.

    On the page I used, it says the 5-Year Estimates are best used for when "[p]recision is more important…

  • RE: interpretation and production of multi-year ACS

    Perhaps of most use in answering your question (though the answer may not be particularly satisfying) is this excerpt:
    "In general, ACS estimates are period estimates that describe the average characteristics of population and housing over a period of…

  • RE: Inflation Adjustment

    The income/earnings questions don't go by calendar years, they go by "earnings/income in the past 12 months." I think what they are doing is somehow averaging the current survey year's and the previous year's CPI-U-RS (although...not everyone would be…

  • Using the ACS to Measure Trends Over Time

  • Recent Census Bureau Guidance on Calculating Standard Errors for Derived Estimates

    If you've been using the guidance and formulas in Appendix 3 of the ACS Compass Handbooks to calculate Margins of Error for ACS estimates that you have derived, then you might want to review the updated guidance and formulas that the Census Bureau provided…

  • Compare 2016 one-year estimates to 2011-2015 five-year estimates?

    Looking ahead to Thursday's ACS release, I'm trying to examine change over time for relatively small groups. Because margins of error tend to be too wide in the one-year data to say much about change over time, the natural temptation is to compare the…

  • Visualizing ACS multi-year estimates

    Hi all,

    I saw a post earlier in this group that suggested this group discuss Mapping as well as general ACS data visualization. Hopefully that's ok, because I've got a question about general data visualization...

    I was wondering if anyone has any…

  • Public Use Microdata Area Boundaries in 2012 ACS PUMS files

    For those who use Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) in the PUMS files, note that the 2008-2012 and 2010-2012 multiyear files are different than previous files because they include two sets of PUMA boundaries. According to the Census Bureau's data documentation…

  • 2014 PAA Workshop

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