CISER

The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides vital information on a yearly basis about our nation and its people. Information from the survey generates data that help determine how more than $400 billion in federal and state funds are distributed each year. Demographic variables include sex, age, relationship, households by type, race, and Hispanic origin. Social characteristics variables include school enrollment, educational attainment, marital status, fertility, grandparents caring for children, veteran status, disability status, residence one year ago, place of birth, United States citizenship status, year of entry, world region of birth of foreign born, language spoken at home, and ancestry. Variables focusing on economic characteristics include employment status, commuting to work, occupation, industry, class of worker, income and benefits, and poverty status. Variables focusing on housing characteristics include occupancy, units in structure, year structure was built, number of rooms, number of bedrooms, housing tenure, year householder moved into unit, vehicles available, house heating fuel, utility costs, occupants per room, housing value, and mortgage status. The American Community Survey is conducted under the authority of Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141 and 193, and response is mandatory.

Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) developed this download center to deliver ready-to-use ACS2015 1-year data sets. We made available FREE full/complete ready-to-use ACS2015 1-year datasets in multiple formats (SAS, SPSS, STATA, CSV) via downloads from the table on this page with no membership or account creation required. The original source CSV files for ACS 2015 1-year PUMS were downloaded from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/data/pums/2015/1-Year/ on October 27, 2016. This download center was built with SAS code which can update the files with newer data as needed. If you have comments/suggestions please contact Florio Arguillas ().

Codebook: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/tech_docs/pums/data_dict/PUMSDataDict15.pdf

Citation

Publications and research reports based on the CISER American Community Survey 2015 Download Center database must cite it appropriately. The citation should include the following:

Florio Arguillas. CISER American Community Survey 2015: Version 1.0 [dataset]. Ithaca, NY: CISER, 2019. DOI: 10.6077/bxsc-z534

For policy briefs or articles in the popular press that use the CISER American Community Survey 2015 database, we recommend that you cite the use of CISER data as follows:

CISER American Community Survey 2015, Cornell University, ciser.cornell.edu.

The licensing agreement for use of CISER American Community Survey 2015 data requires that users supply us with the title and full citation for any publications, research reports, or educational materials making use of the data or documentation.  Please add your citation to the CISER bibliography.