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Who Uses the ACS and Why?

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(April 2009) The ACS puts up-to-date information about important social issues at the fingertips of people who need it, including policymakers, researchers, businesses and nongovernmental organizations, journalists, teachers, students, and the public.

The U.S. Census Tradition

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At the fractious Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, America’s founders conceived the idea of a national census to determine the number of representatives each state would send to Congress.