[EL] defunding the American Community Survey

[John Tanner]

I agree whole-heartedly with Doug and add that not least among the problems
of eliminating the ACS would be removal of the trigger for section 293
 determinations, per section 8 of the 2006 amendments

I do, however, find it annoying that the Census Bureau keeps sending me
emails that artfully skirt the anti-lobbying act

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Doug Hess <douglasrhess at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The American Community Survey (ACS) is not the Census product that asks
> about voting and registration (that is the Current Population Survey's
> November Supplement). Rather it is the "long form" of the Census that is
> now distributed each year to a fraction of households and, thus, allows for
> frequent updating of important demographic data. I.e., instead of waiting
> every ten years, researchers can get something like a rolling picture of
> the nation for the more populous geographic units and multi-year averages
> for smaller units. Congress recently voted to scrap the ACS. This would be
> bad for research and planning in a vast number of fields, including
> elections. You can read about this in the link below after the discussion
> of Congress voting to scrap NSF funding for political science
> research...which would also be bad for elections research.
>
> Just FYI.
>
>
> http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs021/1102766514430/archive/1109996513056.html#LETTER.BLOCK21
>
> Douglas R. Hess, PhD
> Washington, DC
>
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