Re: [CTPP] Census Geography and the ACS

Generally you are correct but let me add a little more detail. There are two types of ACS products coming out. Standard Census Ones and ones paid for by the CTPP program. For Census Bureau standard products the first 5-year ACS product will be released in December and will have Block Groups, Tracts, MCDs (I think for the 12 new england states), Places, Counties, Urban Areas, etc. Here is the log list of census geography. http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/geography/ Sometime soon the CTPP program will be releasing a product using 3-year ACS data. It will contain data for places over 20K people (including qualifying counties, PUMAs, MCDs in the 12 new england states). Sometime in the late summer or fall of 2012 the CTPP program will be putting out a 5-year ACS product which will contain NEW TAZs and TADS. The TADs will be a geography defined by the states and MPOs that approximates 20K people.