Potential Updates to the ACS on Race

Just last week, the Biden administration announced proposed changes on how they will collect data on employees which would allow them to specify a more specific race than only “white” or “Asian”. This comes from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) who has kept...

Why AGS: Vast Geographic Coverage

When the Census data is released every ten years, the geographic boundaries change. The 2020 Census provided unique challenges with the data and geography that we have extensively covered on the blog. To best serve our clients, we carry a complete range of standard...

January 2023 Round-up:

At the end of each month, the AGS team looks back at articles and blog posts that we saw this month that stood out to us. Some are from news agencies, and many come from our partners, but not all use our data. Here is the round-up from January 2023. SiteSeer Research...
Grist for the AGS Data Mill

Grist for the AGS Data Mill

Over the years, our data library has grown from a few hundred demographic variables to well over forty thousand elements that now covers both the United States and Canada. While we are admittedly data geeks, guilty of building data just for the fun of it, many of our...