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The American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS) is a new approach to producing critical information about the characteristics of local communities. It will eliminate the need for a long form in the 2010 Census and is a key part of the Census Bureau’s Decennial Census Program. The ACS publishes social, housing, and economic characteristics for demographic groups covering a broad spectrum of geographic areas in the United States and Puerto Rico. Every year the ACS can support the release of single-year estimates for geographic areas with populations of 65,000 or more. The ACS will accumulate sample over 3-year and 5-year intervals to produce estimates for smaller geographic areas including census tracts and block groups.
Census bureau has released single year ACS since 2006 summer for areas with populations greater than 65,000.
The first three-year averages will be available for areas with populations greater than 20,000 in 2008 summer.
Starting 2010, five-year averages will be produced for all geographic areas, regardless of population size.
American Community Survey Home Page at the Census Bureau is the official site. ACS data can be accessed via the Census Bureau's American FactFinder web application.
CSSCR will provide Washington State ACS data files in SAS and SPSS format and related materials on our website. Each data collection will be provided in its own group as they become available. National data and other states can be acquired by request, please contact the data archivist at txtian@u.washington.edu.
To access 2005 ACS & 2006 ACS data, please click the “One-year ACS” button on the left. |
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