Meeting 21st Century Demographic Data Needs--Implementing the American Community Survey: July 2001. Report 1: Demonstrating Operational Feasibility

摘要

The American Community Survey (ACS) is indispensable to the successful reengineering of the 2010 census design and has proven operationally feasible for nationwide implementation in 2003. To meet the challenges of rapid demographic and technological change and in response to stakeholders requests, Census Bureau managers have concluded that the design of the decennial census must be simplified and long form data collection must be more timely. Therefore, rather than occurring as part of the decennial census, collection of demographic and socioeconomic data will be ongoing throughout the decade via the ACS. In 2000, a critical test of operational feasibility for the ACS--the Census 2000 Supplemental Survey (C2SS) was successfully conducted in an additional 1,203 counties nationwide.