Next Steps on the American Community Survey Disability Questions

In a Federal Register notice posted in October 2023, we proposed changing the ACS questions on disability to a set of questions based on the ...

The American Community Survey (ACS) is the premier source for detailed population and housing information about our nation and the only source of local ...

Disability Blog Posts - U.S. Census Bureau

Next Steps on the American Community Survey Disability Questions. February 06, 2024. The American Community Survey (ACS) is the premier source for detailed ...

Next Steps on the American Community Survey Disability Questions

We are pleased to learn of the U.S. Census Bureau's decision to defer changing the American Community Survey's disability questions until ...

Comments on the American Community Survey Disability Questions

We appreciate the bureau's decision to forgo any changes to the American Community Survey (ACS) disability questions in 2025.

Census Bureau Meets with Disability Advocates

Following the withdrawal of a proposed change to how the American Community Survey (ACS) asks about disability status, the Census Bureau met ...

Keely Cat-Wells on LinkedIn: Next Steps on the American ...

The current American Community Survey (ACS) questions on disability will not be changing for the collection year 2025!

The next Census could radically undercount disabled Americans

The ACS disability questions were created to measure disability status among the U.S. population and added to the Census in 2008 in response to ...

NCD Letter to Census on proposed change to disability questions in ...

The current set of questions in the American Community Survey (ACS-6) consist of six yes/no questions on functioning (ACS-6). Those who respond ...

How Disability Data are Collected from The American Community ...

All three surveys ask about six disability types: hearing difficulty, vision difficulty, cognitive difficulty, ambulatory difficulty, self-care ...

Census Bureau plan would change data on people with disabilities

Some are concerned that the potential revisions to the disability questions on the bureau's annual American Community Survey, as well as how the ...

U.S. Census Bureau scraps proposed changes to disability questions

The ACS uses a set of six yes-or-no questions—related to difficulty with hearing, vision, and other functions—to determine disability status. A ...

An Opportunity for the Census Bureau to More Accurately Estimate ...

2 Robert Santos, “Next Steps on the American Community Survey Disability Questions,“ accessed February 6, 2024, https://www.census.gov/newsroom/ ...

The Census Bureau wants to change how it asks about disabilities ...

... American Community Survey questions would be implemented in 2025. The ACS is the most comprehensive survey of American life, covering ...

ACS Blogs - U.S. Census Bureau

Next Steps on the American Community Survey Disability Questions. February 06, 2024. The American Community Survey (ACS) is the premier source for detailed ...

evidence for inclusive measures of disability in federal surveys ...

The US Census Bureau has used the American Community Survey six-question set (ACS-6) to identify disabled people since 2008. In late 2023, the Census Bureau ...

ACS Disability Briefing

What are the next steps related to this content? Page 3. Why does the. ACS include questions on functioning disability ...

Census 2025 American Community Survey & P.R. Community Survey

Approved proposals for new content or changes to current content were tested via the ACS content change process. This process included cognitive ...

The Census Bureau halts changing how it asks about disabilities ...

Advocates for disabled people had argued that proposed changes to disability questions on the bureau's American Community Survey would ...

Next Steps on the American Community Survey Disability Questions ...

Next Steps on the American Community Survey Disability Questions. February 06, 2024 Written by: Robert L. Santos, Director, U.S. Census Bureau.