Data users should use caution when comparing 2024 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year occupation estimates of Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other (5940) to previous data years (DY).

An analysis of ACS DY2023 and DY2024 write-in responses to the occupation title and job duties questions determined that a planned change to the industry and occupation coding procedures led to an unexpected increase of responses classified as Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other (5940) instead of distributed across multiple occupation codes.

As a result, the increase in the estimates for Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other (5940) is likely the result of this consolidation of write-in responses rather than an actual change in the occupation. The coding procedures have been adjusted to address the issue; however, it persisted into the first several months of DY2025.