Thank you for your outpouring of support in favor of keeping the U.S. Census Bureau's questions about marriage, widowhood, and divorce in its Annual Community Survey (ACS). Your responses helped in the effort to retain several of the questions the Census Bureau had proposed to remove. 

After a full review of the nearly 1,700 comments you submitted, the Census Bureau is planning to retain the Undergraduate Field of Degree and the three Marital History questions and remove the Business/Medical Office on Property question. However, the Bureau is proposing to collect information on marriage intermittently or to a subset of respondents. 

Share Your Comments by May 27 

• Please take a moment to show your support and gratitude to the U.S. Census Bureau for their plan to retain the Marital History questions, and provide your feedback about saving important elements of the American statistical infrastructure.
• Send your written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection by May 27 to OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov.
• The following link outlines the process.
• https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/04/28/2015-09741/submission-for-omb-review-comment-request?eml=gd&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
   

 Review Responses

• Review the full set of comments received in response to the original 60-day Federal Register notice and the documentation package submitted to the OMB on the ACS Content Review web page.
• http://www.census.gov/acs/www/about_the_survey/acs_content_review/?eml=gd&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Questions? 

• Contact the Customer Service Center at the ACS Office:
• 1.800.923.8282