The Understanding Unemployment Measures Across Surveys: A Comparison of the Active Duty Spouse Survey and the American Community Survey report compares the Department of War’s (DoW) Office of People Analytics (OPA)’s Survey of Active Duty Spouses (ADSS), which collects information directly from active duty spouses on their perceptions and experiences with military life, with the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), which collects household social, economic, housing, and demographic information on the nation’s population. The report explores the surveys’ differences in sample, design, and data collection methods to explain the difference in their unemployment estimates and support the use of the DoW measures used in ADSS over the ACS approach.