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American Community Survey (ACS)
Like a more-detailed version of the US Census, but only a sample of the population participates
Found on: Jones, T. R., Datasets for Social Science, github.com/toddrjones/datasets (CC0 1.0), list version b8ef25a of 13 October 2026, read 14 October 2026
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American Community Survey (ACS) – Like a more-detailed version of the US Census, but only a sample of the population participates
- Repeated cross-section. You can access it, e.g., via IPUMS (above link) or the tidycensus R package (requires a Census API key).
- Depending on the geography, you can get a large number of variables like demographics, income, travel time to work, college major, industry, home value, and primary heating source.
Quoted from the section “Household Surveys” of Datasets for Social Science by Todd R. Jones, which is shared under CC0 1.0. e2er added the field, the access level and the years.
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- tidycensus walker-data.com
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- EconomicsSocial sciences
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- Data acquisition
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- Found on a list or in a collection · toddrjones/datasets · @b8ef25a90e805763fbb4a4ad1df93b046135287d
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- dataset:found/american-community-survey-acs · JSON
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