Pandemic Impact on 2020 American Community Survey 1-Year Data

October 27, 2021

By Ceci A. Villa Ross, special assistant, American Community Survey Office, Hyon B. Shin, assistant division chief, Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division, and Matthew C. Marlay, survey statistician, Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the lives of people across the country. It also significantly disrupted data collection for the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) — one of the nation’s most comprehensive sources of population and housing information about the U.S.

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