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.
οΏ½οΏ½ USDA Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS) - terminatedοΏ½οΏ½ EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) - terminatedοΏ½οΏ½ NOAA Billion-Dollar Disasters Database -
terminatedοΏ½οΏ½οΈ FEMA Future Risk Index - taken down
οΏ½οΏ½οΈ DHS Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Open - taken down
οΏ½οΏ½οΈ CEQ Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) - taken down
οΏ½οΏ½οΈ EPA Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJScreen)
- taken down οΏ½οΏ½ OPM FedScope - race and ethnicity data removed
οΏ½οΏ½ BJS National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) - gender data removed
οΏ½οΏ½ BOP Inmate Statistics - transgender data removed
Original Message:
Sent: 10/27/2025 9:43:00 AM
From: Glenn Rice
Subject: RE: πͺ¦ Dearly Departed Federal Datasets -- seeking nominations
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?
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Glenn Rice
Missouri Census Data Center
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-22-2025 01:53 PM
From: Denice Ross
Subject: πͺ¦ Dearly Departed Federal Datasets -- seeking nominations
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.
πββ¬ Deadline: Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at 11:59 pm ET
π―οΈ 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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