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  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    🚀 New Resource from the dataindex.us team: Data Checkup Last week, the dataindex.us team launched the Data Checkup -a comprehensive framework for assessing the health of federal data collections. Going beyond simple availability checks, the ...

  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    How Are Recent Changes to Federal Statistical Data Affecting Your Work? If you rely on federal statistical data in your work-from Census data to BLS employment figures to NCHS health statistics-SSRS wants to hear from you. With support from the ...

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  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    "In fiscal year 2023, the entire federal statistical system-including the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and others-operated on a budget of about $6.8 billion . That might sound like a lot, but it represented ...

  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    Nominations are due March 1, 2026, for the inaugural Katherine K. Wallman Award for Transformative Impact on Federal, State, or Local Statistics . The award was created by the American Statistical Association with the Section on Government Statistics ...

  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    The internet self-response (IRS) will be English only: There are a number of other aspects of the test that have been dramatically scaled back. No testing of Mobile Questionnaire Assistance (MQA) which were deployed at the last minute in 2020 ...