The American Community Survey (ACS) is used for so many basic, fundamental statistics, like: How many people live in each state or congressional district? Are they married? Do they have children? Are they employed? What's their income? What health insurance do they have? And now it’s offline - ThreadSky

cynthiaccox.bsky.social • 19 days ago

The American Community Survey (ACS) is used for so many basic, fundamental statistics, like:
How many people live in each state or congressional district?
Are they married? Do they have children?
Are they employed?
What's their income?
What health insurance do they have?
And now it’s offline

Comments

bluegirlredstate.bsky.social•19 days ago

Some Trump lackey will be pumping up numbers in red states to justify more congressional seats.

mom2phd.bsky.social•19 days ago

I’m able to get in and select some fields, and get a table from the micro data? What exactly were you trying to do? I’m just on a tablet, not my laptop but I can try otherwise in morning.

cynthiaccox.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yes the table query tool works but the actual microdata file was taken offline and can’t be downloaded
https://bsky.app/profile/cynthiaccox.bsky.social/post/3lhfhqo6d4c2i

mom2phd.bsky.social•19 days ago

They are used for social determinants of health, socioeconomics etc in equity research, so, now among the forbidden 😡 I think some of these data were retained by colleagues I need to check.

jwhampton.bsky.social•19 days ago

FUCK.

rgidwani.bsky.social•19 days ago

I told my PhD student to download tables from the ACS last Friday. Ended our meeting early so he could. He told me he got the race, ethnicity, income, and educ. tables just before they were scrubbed. It feels like we live in a dystopian movie where we’re trying to outrun the ignorance monster 😔

bendavanzo.bsky.social•19 days ago

https://Data.census.gov seems to work for me?

cynthiaccox.bsky.social•19 days ago

The microdata are not available for download — only table queries

bendavanzo.bsky.social•19 days ago

So odd

cynthiaccox.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yes it’s strange. This seems to break the pattern we had seen over the last few days.

BRFSS & YRBS microdata are back *online* with transgender Qs, but with no codebook or questionnaire

Meanwhile ACS microdata are *offline*, but the codebook & questionnaire are online.

I can’t make sense of this

bendavanzo.bsky.social•19 days ago

Hope somebody uncovers who is doing this and why. We'll need that data to understand the implications of what's happening policy-wise

cynthiaccox.bsky.social•19 days ago

(To explain more those who are unfamiliar with the distinction — if the microdata are offline, that means data analysts cannot do their own custom analyses or modeling. This is usually how we use federal survey data at @kff.org. Same for other research organizations and universities)

thomaswilk-econ.bsky.social•19 days ago

it seems like everything the Census used to publish for data is now offline. I can't even access Shapefiles.

bluegirlredstate.bsky.social•19 days ago

Once Trump people are in there we’ll never be able to trust census data again.

thomaswilk-econ.bsky.social•19 days ago

here's hoping for a thorough audit of the data once it comes back online and wrestled out of the hands of manipulating deceitful criminals.

akw.bsky.social•19 days ago

thomaswilk-econ.bsky.social•19 days ago

it will eventually. nothing is permanent.

cynthiaccox.bsky.social•19 days ago

Unlike some other survey data that recently went offline, this does not, on its face, seem to be a response to Trump’s executive order on gender.

ACS does not include questions about gender identity. The sex question is binary male/female.

Is this about race? Sexual orientation? Hard to say.