*New* Take Action! Comment on Proposed Changes to the Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement (11/16/26)
Posted: 2026-11-06 10:07:39 (Demography News)
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Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement.
Census is planning a major 2027 field test of the CPS ASEC, the source of official national poverty estimates and major data on income and health insurance. For the first time, Census will test allowing people to complete the ASEC online themselves rather than only through an interviewer, as part of a broader CPS modernization planned for 2027–2029. Because converting an interviewer-administered survey to internet self-response requires changes throughout the questionnaire, Census will test whether the new format and revised questions produce comparable estimates of poverty, income, health insurance, and other measures. About 50,000 households will participate.
Comments due November 16.
Date: 11/16/2026
Deadline: 11/16/2026