Upcoming Webinar: Understanding American Community Survey Data
Date: Thursday, August 20, 2026
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (ET)
| Register Now! | Webinar capacity: 100 attendees. Please only register if you are able to attend the live event. The recording will be available in the FDLP Academy Training Repository as soon as possible after the event. |
Learning outcomes: Discover the detailed social, economic, demographic, and housing statistics that the American Community Survey (ACS) provides for every community every year. You will learn about the basics of the yearly estimates and datasets produced from the ACS, resources available on our website, and how to access ACS data products through a variety of tools. We will also highlight useful ACS information for librarians. The webinar will include a live demonstration of ACS data access tools.
Speaker: Ryan Ricciardi, Statistician/Data Scientist, U.S. Census Bureau
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