The U.S. Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report that reviews operational and programmatic aspects of the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS will be a mail survey of about 3 million households annually, whose results will be cumulated over 5 years to produce estimates that will replace information previously provided by the Decennial Census long form. The GAO report recommends that the U.S. Secretary of Commerce direct the Census Bureau to revise the ACS evaluation and testing plan, give stakeholders meaningful input on related decisions, make the underlying survey information public, and set a schedule for incorporating operational and programmatic changes into the 5-year averages for 2008–12.