Hi all! Sharing in case this is of interest to you all as ACS data users- The Census Quality Reinforcement (CQR) Task Force has organized a sign-on letter concerning the Census Bureau's recent ACS/PRCS Federal Register Notice and the decision not to ...

The Census SAIPE (Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates) may have some additional estimates. This is the data that supports the free and reduced price lunches, and the longest running small area program (since 1970s). The income data are produced annually. ...

It has long bothered me that small geographies have to rely on 5-year sample estimates, but there is observable structural bias in those estimates. Namely, previous year observations are inflated using CPI growth, which differs nationally (much less regionally) ...

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 What topics, ...

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 yet? The SPM data file combines data from the ASEC Microdata (N= approx 95,000 households ...