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  • 1.  🪦 Dearly Departed Federal Datasets -- seeking nominations

    Posted 10-22-2025 01:53 PM

    Data friends, One of the most common questions I get from journalists is, what datasets have actually disappeared? In a collaboration between PEDP, FAS, and EssentialData.US, we are crowdsourcing a list to answer that question. We'll research each of the submissions and publish the memorials on Halloween.

    Please share any losses to datasets, data elements, or tools and what that dearly departed data meant to you. Please share widely with your networks, and submit your own obits for the data you are missing in your life.

    🐈‍⬛ Deadline: Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at 11:59 pm ET

    🕯️ Submit here: Memorialize the federal datasets that have been terminated or removed

    Thank you!

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    Memorialize the federal datasets that have been terminated or removed
    This Halloween season, we're remembering the federal datasets that have met an untimely end - the ones that were terminated or removed. Help us memorialize these Dearly Departed Datasets so we can all understand what was lost and why they matter.
    View this on Google Docs >



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    Denice Ross
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  • 2.  RE: 🪦 Dearly Departed Federal Datasets -- seeking nominations

    Posted 10-23-2025 03:45 PM

    Great idea to crowd-source this information. It will be very helpful to so many of us – I just posted this on LinkedIn.



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    Andy Krackov
    Hillcrest Advisory
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  • 3.  RE: 🪦 Dearly Departed Federal Datasets -- seeking nominations

    Posted 10-27-2025 09:43 AM

    Denice, how far back are you looking? Are you specifically asking about federal data sources lost in the most recent rounds of agency cuts? I've lost several useful sources over the past few years, but not necessarily recently. For example, a lot of BEA data was discontinued in summer 2024 (https://www.bea.gov/itable/discontinued-data-tables) due to budget constraints. 

    Is there any place to see the list so far?

    GR



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    Glenn Rice
    Missouri Census Data Center
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  • 4.  RE: 🪦 Dearly Departed Federal Datasets -- seeking nominations

    Posted 10-27-2025 10:34 AM
    Good question! We are looking at "above baseline" data losses in 2025. So, for example, if a satellite was already scheduled to be decommissioned, then that wouldn't count. 

    Interestingly, there aren't a lot of datasets or elements that meet the criteria -- we listed most of them on the website here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzVsyd1ypzu0E0tomqaAqhNrJLIB-dEALA6BpWrpfxh_Jfwg/viewform and copied below:

    �� USDA Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS) - terminated�� EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) - terminated
    �� NOAA Billion-Dollar Disasters Database - terminated
    ��️ FEMA Future Risk Index - taken down
    ��️ DHS Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Open - taken down
    ��️ CEQ Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) - taken down
    ��️ EPA Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJScreen) - taken down
    �� OPM FedScope - race and ethnicity data removed
    �� BJS National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) - gender data removed
    �� BOP Inmate Statistics - transgender data removed




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  • 5.  RE: 🪦 Dearly Departed Federal Datasets -- seeking nominations

    Posted 10-29-2025 11:19 AM

    This is a reminder that the deadline to share losses to datasets, data elements, or tools is TODAY. Here's the link to Denice Ross's original post:

    https://federaldataforum.prb.org/discussion/dearly-departed-federal-datasets-seeking-nominations



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    Mark Mather
    Associate VP
    PRB
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  • 6.  RE: 🪦 Dearly Departed Federal Datasets -- seeking nominations

    Posted 01-28-2026 04:50 PM

    You can still submit datasets here:

    In Memoriam | America's Essential Data



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    Celena Mijares
    Research Analyst
    Population Reference Bureau
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