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📊 ACS revisions open for public comment-deadline Feb 17 @Beth Jarosz , @Chris Dick , @Meeta Anand , and I break down proposed changes to the 2027 American Community Survey in a new post for dataindex.us . Key proposed revisions: ...
🚀 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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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