---
"title": "FAQs about Hispanics and Immigrants from the American Community Survey"
"description": "The Pew Hispanic Center has updated its statistical profile of U.S. Hispanics, using data from the 2009 American Community Survey."
"date": "2011-02-17"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "D’Vera Cohn"
    "job_title": "Former Senior Writer/Editor"
    "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/dvera-cohn/"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2011/02/17/faqs-about-hispanics-and-immigrants-from-the-american-community-survey/"
"categories":
  - "Immigration & Migration"
  - "Race & Ethnicity"
---

# FAQs about Hispanics and Immigrants from the American Community Survey

The Pew Hispanic Center has updated its [statistical profile of U.S. Hispanics](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/hispanic/2011/02/17/statistical-portrait-of-hispanics-in-the-united-states-2009/), using data from the 2009 American Community Survey. The profile includes 40 tables on a variety of topics from living arrangements to income to citizenship. Also updated, using the 2009 American Community Survey, was the center’s [profile of the U.S. foreign-born population](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/hispanic/2011/02/17/statistical-portrait-of-the-foreign-born-population-in-the-united-states-2009/), also consisting of 40 tables with details on characteristics of this population.

These updated profiles complement previously published [state and county data for Hispanics](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/hispanic/states/) from the 2008 American Community Survey.