According to US law, the details of a census can't be released to the general public until 72 years after the census was taken. In other words, the actual data sheets from the 1950 Census are now available on-line for anyone to look at. Note that these data sheets being published are scans of the actual handwritten sheets which were filled-out by the census takers as this was still pre-computer (hopefully in 10 years, the images will be from computer printouts). To see what I mean, this is the file I downloaded that included my family info:

Anyway, when I read that the 1950 Census data was now available, I immediately checked it out since this would have been the first tally where both my wife and I would appear (I was born in 1947 and my wife in 1946). It took me only a few minutes to find the tally sheets where my family and my wife's family data was recorded. Since the tally sheet was dated April 28th, I was listed as two years old and my wife as three.
Now if you wish to look-up yourself, if you were living in the US in 1950, or you're curious about perhaps your parents or grandparents, here's the link for the Census Bureau website:
http://1950census.archives.gov/search/
Note that this data can be searched by State, County/City, and family Name. If you don't know the County/City, you can just search by State (you can probably search the entire data base even if you don't know that state, just that I didn't try that as I knew where are families were living in 1950).
Anyway, it was interesting what I found.
My search was based on the State of Michigan, the County of Montmorency, and our family Surname (note that according to the Census Bureau, there were 4,125 people living in the county in 1950, and 9,381 in 2020). Our family was found on sheet #44 (as seen above). Now if anyone is wondering how were the names collected, I would say that it was by geographical area. I say this because just ahead of our family was listed my maternal grandparents, who lived next door. And since the census was still being taken mostly by actual census takers who went door to door, that's how I would have expected that date to be listed.
Now this brings up and interesting story. At that time, both my family and my wife's family lived in the same small town, Lewiston, in the Southwest corner of Montmorency County (her family data was on sheet #46). Now our parents knew each other, but they were not friends nor did they interact in any way, at least that's the answers we got when we first started dating and learned of our pasts (we only lived about three miles from each other). It seems that both our families moved out of the area the same year, 1953, when I was five years old and my wife, who by then, was seven. We moved downstate to Carlton, Michigan, and my wife's family moved to Wapato, Washington.
In 1956 we moved back up to Lewiston, and I lived there until 1965.
In 1962 my wife's family moved back to Michigan, first to Flint and then a year later, back up to Lewiston. It was in 1963 that we met for the first time, while riding on the school bus 17 miles to our county high school. We started dating in October. She graduated in 1964 and left for college while I graduated in 1965 when I left for school. Two years later, we were married (we celebrate our 55th wedding anniversary a week from tomorrow).
Anyway, reviewing the census records is interesting even if the images are scans of the original paper tally sheets, but you can dig the data out if you know what you're looking at.