News Census Bureau Video Shows How Business Uses the American Community Survey

The Target Corporation has 300,000 workers in 49 states. A short video produced by he U.S. Census Bureau, featuring officials of Target, details how the company uses ACS data for marketing its products everyday.

Enhancing the American Community Survey: Congress and the ACS

In late September 2011, Mary Jo Hoeksema, director of government affairs at the Population Association of America and a co-director of the Census Project, gave a presentation on the legislative history of the American Community Survey (ACS) and the challenges that lie ahead in Congress in order to assure that the ACS has adequate resources to meet its mission.