2020 citizenship question

Useful background information for those trying to understand the implications of the April 23, 2019 Supreme Court hearing on the citizenship question and the 2020 Census

• Supreme Court Prepares To Hear 2020 Census Citizenship Question
• New research shows just how badly a citizenship question would hurt the 2020 Census
• Citizenship Question Risks a 2020 Census Undercount in Every State, Especially Among Children
• Questionable? Why an Untested Citizenship Question Threatens the 2020 Census (video)

FactFinder is dead! Long live data.census.gov!

Did you know... 
American FactFinder is going away and will be replaced by data.census.gov

If you've been working with Census Bureau data for many years (as some of us have), you'll recall how much fun (it was fun, right?) we had with the first iteration of FactFinder. But eventually CB worked out the kinks and we all grew to know and love (it's love, right?) the interface.

So this swap to a new system feels like a little bit of history repeating. We data users will probably pull out our hair for awhile, bemoan the loss of a familiar system, gripe about the new platform early and often... Then eventually we'll figure out the new tricks, and one day we'll realize this "new thing" has become the "old, familiar thing."

And that transition starts now.

2018 ACS data will NOT be loaded into AFF, so if you need new data, your choices will be data.census.gov or the API.

Here's a helpful video on how to us the new system: