ACS Data Users Group

We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, December 10, 2020. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare for next week's data release.

New and updated information related to this release is available now on the 2019 Data Release page.

Highlights include links to the following:

• The Table & Geography Changes page explains new, modified, and removed tables.
• The Summary File Documentation page includes the templates, 5-year appendices, sequence number/table number lookup files, simplified geography files, SAS programs, and macros.
• The ACS Data User Handbooks and Training Presentations were recently updated with recent and relevant information about the ACS and its data products.

The 2019 ACS estimates will be released in the U.S. Census Bureau's data dissemination platform, data.census.gov. The platform serves as the primary way for accessing data and digital content from the Census Bureau. Please note, the current release of data.census.gov works best in Google Chrome.

This is very exciting! Do you know when we can expect the 2019 comparison page to be updated to include the 5-year to 5-year comparison guide? Our team finds this guide very helpful, and we were hoping to be able to use it when evaluating the modified tables for 2019.

Hi Lauren! Thanks for the question. You can expect the comparison page to be updated on 12/10 (next Thursday)

Thanks!