The U.S. Census Bureau is scheduled to hold a prerelease webinar about the 2020-2024 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates on Thursday, Jan. 22, at 1 p.m. ET. The webinar will explain how to access ACS data and give tips on comparing geographies and statistics over time.
The ACS provides a wide range of statistics about the nation’s people and housing, such as language spoken at home, education, commuting, employment, mortgage status and rent, income, poverty, and health insurance coverage. It is the only source of local estimates for most of the 40-plus topics it covers.
Statistics will be available to embargo subscribers beginning Jan. 27, at 10 a.m. ET for a variety of geographic areas, including all states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, congressional and state legislative districts, metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, counties, places, and other geographies down to census tracts and block groups.
Embargo subscribers will have access to the statistics from Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 10 a.m. ET, to Thursday, Jan. 29, at 12:01 a.m. ET. Wire and distribution services are prohibited from distributing embargoed news stories and data files before the public release date and time. For more information, refer to the Census Bureau’s embargo policy. All datasets will be available to the public Thursday, Jan. 29, by 10 a.m. ET.
Register for embargo access at:
www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/embargoed_releases
2020-2024 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates Prerelease Webinar
Thursday, Jan. 22, at 1 p.m. ET
The webinar will consist of a simultaneous audio conference and online presentation. Attendees do not have to call into the webinar to hear the audio. Credentialed media and data users will be able to ask questions during the webinar utilizing the Q&A feature and after the presentation through audio.
Registration link:
www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2026/2020-2024-acs-5-year-prerelease.html
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