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  • 1.  Accessing old ACS data on FTP site?

    Posted 04-01-2020 02:58 PM

    Hi All,

    Does anyone have instructions or a video you could refer me to on how to access older ACS data through their FTP site? Of course, I have some old data I need to pull just in time for the site to go offline yesterday! I've been poking around the FTP site but it is pretty nebulous. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    Bill Byrnes



  • 2.  RE: Accessing old ACS data on FTP site?

    Posted 04-01-2020 03:04 PM
    Bill you'll need to download the files then import them into a database. Are you looking for the 5-year data? If there's a particular year you are looking for I have a lot of the data already in Access and SQL files by state (but not all states in some years). or, possibly better yet, check out NHGIS.org to get the data you're looking for: https://data2.nhgis.org/main


  • 3.  RE: Accessing old ACS data on FTP site?

    Posted 04-03-2020 10:22 AM
    Thanks, JamiRae! I will try out the NHGIS data. If that doesn't work out I might be back in touch :-)