Encouragement from NNIP to respond to the Federal Register Notice about the ACS - due January 6
Pettit, Kathryn
NNIPNews friends,
Apologies for any duplicate postings…
There are many potential impacts of the election on the access and quality of federal data: the proposals to make the ACS optional or limiting the number of allowed contact attempts; challenges to the implementation of the new race and ethnicity standards, and the use of administrative records by the Census Bureau, among other topics. We will send occasional updates - you can also sign up for the Association of Public Data Users news to get their notices.
You can contribute!
- We are encouraging groups to submit comments to the Federal Register Notice about the American Community Survey due January 6. Your comments should include specific examples of how ACS data have been used locally to benefit your community. These comments will be extremely helpful in federal decisionmaking as the elimination of ACS questions or limit of contact attempts
- Here is a template from the Leadership Conference you can consider using.
- We’d love it if you’d share any submission you turn in - it will be helpful to collect them for our friends working on protecting the ACS next year.
- You could sign on as an organization to The Leadership Conference and the Census Task Force’s letter (text here and sign on here by 5:00 p.m. ET on January 5, 2025.) You can sign on whether or not you submit your own.
- You could repost APDUs Linked In about the notice as a simple way to share with your networks.
- You can also suggest federal websites to be archived through the End-of-Term Archive hosted by Stanford and other partners. Simple instructions can be found here: https://eotarchive.org/contribute/
Hope everyone has a good holiday season,
Kathy
Kathryn Pettit
Senior Fellow
Co-Director, National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership
Pronouns: she/her/hers
U R B A N I N S T I T U T E
Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center
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