Thank you! I have found manipulable (complex cross tabs, time series etc) census and ACS data is really hard to access outside of those services you pay for
Yes, exactly! Sadly, there are entire commercial vendors dedicated to selling cleaned up versions of relatively simple cross-tabs. The ACS does extraordinary data surveying, but is less strong at structuring it, especially for analytical use cases.
If you are looking for future datasets to tackle, may I suggest ATUS or any HNWI-targeted data (not sure there is a public dataset of this last one tho)
