Generations United has made available a PowerPoint presentation (.ppt) demonstrating how to access data about grandparents and grandchildren living together from the American Community Survey.

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007 (PDF, from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Reports) uses data from the American Community Survey and the Current Population Survey.

Among the findings:

• A larger proportion of women than men had completed high school or more education. A larger proportion of men had received at least a bachelor’s degree.
• Differences in educational attainment by race and Hispanic origin existed. Attainment for non-Hispanic Whites and Asians was higher than attainment for Blacks and Hispanics. (Hispanics may be any race.)
• Educational attainment varied by nativity. About 88 percent of the native-born population had at least a high school diploma, compared to 68 percent of the foreign-born population. More native-born than foreign-born adults reported completing at least a bachelor’s degree (28 percent and 27 percent, respectively), while more foreign-born than nativeborn adults reported having an advanced degree (11 percent and 10 percent, respectively).
• Educational attainment of foreign-born Hispanics was lower than all other groups. The percentage of foreign-born Hispanics who had completed at least high school was 49 percent, which is the same as the percentage of foreign-born Asians who had completed college or more education.

The Pew Hispanic Center has released a new fact sheet, Hispanic Women in the United States, 2007, containing statistics from the Current Population Survey and American Community Survey.

PRI Library has received announcement of the 2008 NPC Summer Workshop at the University of Michigan: Analyzing Poverty and Socioeconomic Trends Using the American Community Survey (ACS). Workshop will be held in Ann Arbor June 23-27, 2008.

The American Community Survey’s Interstate Migration Data: Strategies for Smoothing Irregular Age Patterns by James Raymer & Andrei Rogers (POP2007-08, Population Program, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Emigration and Schooling among Second-Generation Mexican-American Children by Michael S. Rendall & Berna M. Torr (RAND Working Paper WR-529)

• Interpreting 12th-Graders’ NAEP-Scaled Mathematics Performance Using High School Predictors and Postsecondary Outcomes From the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88)
• Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Minorities
  In addition to presenting educational indicators for racial and ethnic minority compared to each other and to white students, this report uses data from the American Community Survey to detail educational differences among Hispanic subgroups.

A new report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) says that rural students perform better in science than their rural counterparts (AP via Centre Daily Times). Status of Education in Rural America brings together data from NCES surveys and the American Community Survey (ACS).

The U.S. Census Bureau today submitted to Congress the subjects it plans to address in the 2010 Census, which include gender, age, race, ethnicity, relationship and whether you own or rent your home.

The Census Bureau also submitted its planned subjects for the American Community Survey (ACS) — a new yearly survey that eliminates the need for a decennial long-form questionnaire, while providing key socioeconomic and housing data about the nation’s rapidly changing population every year rather than once a decade.

For more, see the Census Bureau news release.

Using the American Community Survey: Benefits and Challenges, available from National Academies Press, provides guidance on using data from the survey effectively.

The Census Bureau has released three reports on racial and ethnic populations based on the 2004 American Community Survey:

• The American Community — Hispanics: 2004 (PDF)
• The American Community — Blacks: 2004 (PDF)
• The American Community — Asians: 2004 (PDF)