ACS Data Users Group

I work with the microdata about as, if not more, often than I work with tabulations. The PUMS microdata have had the "tabooed" ...

The short answer is that we don't know yet. My reading is that small-area tabulations below the county level could face the ...

Since this is a list for geeks....can I also ask about "binning" or "aggregating" geographic units. Would the order also impact ...

The Commerce Department issued an order on June 4 prohibiting the use of "noise infusion" as a disclosure avoidance technique ...

Hi all! Sharing in case this is of interest to you all as ACS data users- The Census Quality Reinforcement (CQR) Task Force has ...

The Census SAIPE (Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates) may have some additional estimates. This is the data that supports ...

It has long bothered me that small geographies have to rely on 5-year sample estimates, but there is observable structural bias ...

I published a blog post looking at some of the questions ACS data users have asked most often over the past decade: https://federaldataforum.prb.org/acsdatausersgroup/blogs/mark-mather/2026/06/01/what-acs-data-users-want-to-know ...

Dear Lorna, I've done some work with the SPM. Have you looked at https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/working-papers/2020/demo/SEHSD-WP2020-09.pdf ...

For what it is worth, I have had persistent issues with the API interface when downoloading both ACS tables (B S C etc) and PUMS ...