American Community Survey (ACS)

American Community Survey Alert, Number 54

(released September 27, 2007)    Printer Friendly Version of Alert 54

Informing you about news, events, data releases, congressional action, and other developments associated with the American Community Survey (ACS).

News in this Alert

• *U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2006 ACS Data on Selected Race, Hispanic Origin and Ancestry Populations, Group Quarters Profiles, and Workplace-based Tables
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*U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) Selected Population Profiles, Group Quarters Profiles, and Workplace Geography Tables

The Census Bureau today released 2006 ACS selected population profiles, group quarters profiles, and workplace geography tables. The selected population profiles include 2006 ACS estimates on selected race, Hispanic origin, and ancestry populations. The 2006 ACS data provide key socioeconomic and housing characteristics for about 200 selected population groups at the national and state levels. It allows for easy comparisons across groups and access to a range of data from age, marital status and fertility, to language spoken at home, and educational attainment. The group quarters data provide the first social and economic characteristic profiles of people living in group quarters - such as college/university housing, adult correctional facilities, and skilled nursing facilities - in nearly three decades. Workplace-based tables use a person's place of work as the unit of analysis, as opposed to all of the other ACS tables that use a person's place of residence. The data may be found on the Census Bureau's American FactFinder Website at: http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en.

The ACS is a key component of the Census Bureau's 2010 Decennial Census Program, which also consists of early planning and modernization of geographic operations and a short-form only for the 2010 Census.

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