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The 2020 Census marked the 24th count of the U.S. population and the first time that households were invited to respond to the census online.
American Community Survey (ACS)

The American Community Survey is the premier source for information about America's changing population, housing and workforce.
Economic Census

The Economic Census is the official five-year measure of American businesses providing comprehensive statistics at the national, state, and local levels. Follow the 2022 Economic Census release schedule for additional information.

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American Community Survey (ACS)
Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE)
Decennial Census
Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage (DCDL) Project
Enhancing Health Data (EHealth) Program
Geographic Support System Initiative (GSS-I)
Geographically Updated Population Certification Program (GUPCP)
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS)
National Household Education Survey (NHES)
National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS)
Principal Follow-Up Survey (PFS)
Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS)
School Crime Supplement (SCS)
School District Review Program (SDRP)
School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS)
Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE)
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Survey of Market Absorption of New Multifamily Units (SOMA)
Teacher Follow-Up Survey (TFS)
Tribal Statistical Areas Program (TSAP)

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Annual Survey of Public Pensions (ASPP)
Annual Survey of State Government Finances (ASFIN)
Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections (STC)
Building Permits Survey (BPS)
Business and Professional Classification Survey (SQ-CLASS)
Business Enterprise Research and Development Survey (BERD)
Center for Economic Studies (CES)
Center for Enterprise Dissemination (CED)
Commodity Flow Survey (CFS)
Common Core of Data (CCD)
County Business Patterns (CBP)
Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS)
Directory Survey of Local Governments
Economic Census (EC)
Education Demographic, Geographic, and Economic Statistics (EDGE) Survey
Enterprise Statistics Program (ESP)
Export Statistics
Federal Assistance Awards Data System (FAADS)
Federal Audit Clearinghouse (FAC)
Governments Units Survey (GUS)
Import Statistics
International Trade Program
Juvenile Residential Facility Census (JRFC)
Local Government School System Finance Survey
Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS)
Management and Organizational Practices Survey—Hospitals
Manufactured Homes Survey (MHS)
Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders (M3UFO) Survey
Manufacturing Technology Survey
National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) Program
New Residential Construction (NRC)
New Residential Sales (NRS)
Nonemployer Statistics
Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS)
Pollution Abatement Costs & Expenditures Survey (PACE)
Public Libraries Survey (PLS)
Quarterly Financial Report (QFR)
Quarterly Services Survey (QSS)
Quarterly Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue (QTAX)
Quarterly Survey of Plant Capacity Utilization (QPC)
Quarterly Survey of Public Pensions (QSPP)
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI)
Service Annual Survey (SAS)
Small Business Pulse Survey
Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB)
Survey of Construction (SOC)
Survey of Sexual Victimization (SSV)
The Military Panel
Value of Construction Put in Place Survey

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American Community Survey (ACS)
Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE)
Decennial Census
Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage (DCDL) Project
Enhancing Health Data (EHealth) Program
Geographic Support System Initiative (GSS-I)
Geographically Updated Population Certification Program (GUPCP)
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS)
National Household Education Survey (NHES)
National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS)
Principal Follow-Up Survey (PFS)
Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS)
School Crime Supplement (SCS)
School District Review Program (SDRP)
School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS)
Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE)
Statistics in Schools
Survey of Market Absorption of New Multifamily Units (SOMA)
Teacher Follow-Up Survey (TFS)
Tribal Statistical Areas Program (TSAP)

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Annual Survey of Public Pensions (ASPP)
Annual Survey of State Government Finances (ASFIN)
Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections (STC)
Building Permits Survey (BPS)
Business and Professional Classification Survey (SQ-CLASS)
Business Enterprise Research and Development Survey (BERD)
Center for Economic Studies (CES)
Center for Enterprise Dissemination (CED)
Commodity Flow Survey (CFS)
Common Core of Data (CCD)
County Business Patterns (CBP)
Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS)
Directory Survey of Local Governments
Economic Census (EC)
Education Demographic, Geographic, and Economic Statistics (EDGE) Survey
Enterprise Statistics Program (ESP)
Export Statistics
Federal Assistance Awards Data System (FAADS)
Federal Audit Clearinghouse (FAC)
Governments Units Survey (GUS)
Import Statistics
International Trade Program
Juvenile Residential Facility Census (JRFC)
Local Government School System Finance Survey
Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS)
Management and Organizational Practices Survey—Hospitals
Manufactured Homes Survey (MHS)
Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders (M3UFO) Survey
Manufacturing Technology Survey
National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) Program
New Residential Construction (NRC)
New Residential Sales (NRS)
Nonemployer Statistics
Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS)
Pollution Abatement Costs & Expenditures Survey (PACE)
Public Libraries Survey (PLS)
Quarterly Financial Report (QFR)
Quarterly Services Survey (QSS)
Quarterly Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue (QTAX)
Quarterly Survey of Plant Capacity Utilization (QPC)
Quarterly Survey of Public Pensions (QSPP)
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI)
Service Annual Survey (SAS)
Small Business Pulse Survey
Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB)
Survey of Construction (SOC)
Survey of Sexual Victimization (SSV)
The Military Panel
Value of Construction Put in Place Survey

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2024 Census Survey

The 2024 Census Survey is a small-scale test providing insight into how people engage with the online questionnaire and the invitation materials received.
Economic Survey

Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services (MARTS)

Provides an early indication of sales of retail and food service companies.
Demographic Survey

American Community Survey (ACS)

The American Community Survey is the premier source for information about America's changing population, housing and workforce.
Demographic Survey

American Housing Survey (AHS)

The AHS is sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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American Time Use Survey (ATUS)

The ATUS measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, childcare, volunteering, and socializing.
Economic Survey

Annual Business Survey (ABS) Program

Provides annual data on select economic and demographic characteristics of employer businesses, including annual R&D estimates.
Economic Survey

Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES)

The Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES) provides estimates on business spending for new and used structures and equipment.
Economic Survey

Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES)

The AIES is a re-engineered survey designed to integrate and replace seven existing annual business surveys into a streamlined single survey instrument.
Economic Survey

Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS)

The Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS) produces industry-level estimates of sales, expenses, and other items for the retail sector in the U.S. each year.
Economic Survey

Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs (ASE)

Provides estimates of number of firms, sales/receipts, annual payroll, and employment by sex, ethnicity, race, and veteran status.
Economic Survey

Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM)

The Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) provides key intercensal measures of manufacturing activity, products, and location for public and private sector use.
Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll (ASPEP)

Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll (ASPEP)

Provides state and local government data on full-time and part-time employment, part-time hours worked, full-time equivalent employment, and payroll statistics.
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Annual Survey of Public Pensions (ASPP)

The Survey of Public Pensions provides revenues, expenditures, financial assets, and membership information for the defined benefit public pensions.
Economic Survey

Annual Survey of School System Finances

Provides statistics about the finances of elementary and secondary public school systems.
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Annual Survey of State Government Finances (ASFIN)

State Government Finances provides a comprehensive summary of annual survey findings for state governments.
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Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections (STC)

The STC provides a summary of taxes collected by state for 5 broad tax categories and up to 25 tax subcategories.
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Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances (ALFIN)

Statistics on revenue, expenditure, debt, and assets (cash and security holdings) for governments.
Economic Survey

Annual Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS)

AWTS is conducted every year to provide detailed industry measures of sales, inventories, operational expenses and purchases for wholesale trade activities.
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Ask U.S. Panel Pilot

The Ask U.S. Panel pilot invited households to participate in an initiative to improve the ways the federal government collects information from the public.
Demographic Survey

Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS)

The Census Bureau conducts the BAS annually to collect information about selected legally defined geographic areas.
Economic Survey

Building Permits Survey (BPS)

The purpose of the Building Permits Survey is to provide national, state, and local statistics on new privately-owned residential construction.
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Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)

Tabulations of establishment openings/closings, firm startups/shutdowns, and job creation/destruction, with unique information on firm age and firm size.
Economic Survey

Business Enterprise Research and Development Survey (BERD)

Provides detailed statistics on global and domestic R&D expenses of U.S. based companies and statistics on R&D workforce, IP and technology transfer activities.
Business Expenses Supplement (BES)

Business Expenses Supplement (BES)

Compiles statistics on business operating expenses.
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Business Formation Statistics (BFS)

Tabulations on business applications and formations in the U.S. at quarterly frequency, including projections for recent and future quarters.
Economic Survey

Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS)

Provides insights with timely, high frequency data across all nonfarm sectors of the economy.
Economic Survey

Business and Professional Classification Survey

Obtains information necessary to identify and classify businesses to update the samples for current business surveys and the Economic Census.
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Census Bureau Research Panel

The Census Bureau Research Panel is a survey used to test and evaluate questions.
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Census Household Panel
Demographic Survey

Census Household Survey (CHS)
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Census Military Panel

The Military Panel is national survey panel by the U.S. Census Bureau (Census) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
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Census of Governments (COG)

Identifies the scope and nature of the nation's state and local government sector including public finance and public employment and classifications.
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Census of Juveniles in Resident Placement (CJRP)

Collects detailed information on youth residing in detention, correctional, and other shelter facilities.
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Center for Economic Studies (CES)

CES partners with stakeholders to improve measures of the economy and people of the United States through research and development of innovative data products.
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Commodity Flow Survey (CFS)

CFS is a joint project of Census and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics producing data on the movement of goods in the United States.
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Common Core of Data (CCD)

Collects fiscal and non-fiscal data about all public schools, public school districts and state education agencies in the United States.