The Census Bureau has released some numbers today that could potentially change everything! Well, perhaps not that dramatic, but the American Community Survey is an attempt to get more stats out there, faster than you can say Decennial Census (which, by the way, happens every ten years). This ACS 2005 release contains social and demographic data for all 50 states and DC, and marks the first time that this survey reached areas with populations less than 250,000. This is huge, since the idea is that in four years, the ACS will replace the long form, and data that demographers, lobbyists, and social programmers depend on for funding will not come from a survey mandated by the Constitution.
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