WASHINGTON, March 10 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Census Bureau issued the following report in January 2024 by Christopher Martin and Sharon A. Tosi Lacey entitled "History of the American Community Survey." Here are excerpts: * * * Contents Delivering What Users Want: The Evolution of U.S. Census Bureau Small Area Data - Introduction to the History of the American Community Survey ... 1 Introduction ... 1 Early Attempts to Expand Data Products: 1880 and 1890 Censuses ... 1 From 1910-1945, Newly  more

WASHINGTON, March 10 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Census Bureau issued the following report in January 2024 entitled "History of the American Community Survey:" (Continued from Part 1 of 10) * * * INCREASED FEDERAL DEMANDS FOR DATA TO DOCUMENT PROGRAMS AND EMPOWER LOCAL COMMUNITIES/MINORITIES: 1964-1975 Civil rights laws, court decisions, and antipoverty programs greatly expanded the scope of small area data needed to qualify for funds, assess program effectiveness, and/or monitor compliance. For in  more

WASHINGTON, March 10 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Census Bureau issued the following report in January 2024 entitled "History of the American Community Survey:" (Continued from Part 2 of 10) * * * Chapter 1. Data Needs for a Changing Society INTRODUCTION At the behest of the Bureau of the Budget, in the early 1940s the U.S. Census Bureau began to explore ways to conduct a sample census of population, housing, and agriculture to occur between the constitutionally mandated decennial censuses of popul  more