Take Action! NIH Data Policies and More
by Meghan Maury RFI of the Week: NIH Controlled-Access Data Policy and Proposed Revisions to NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy. NIH is requesting public input...
The World Factbook Was a Valuable Data Resource
by Chris Marcum Yesterday, the CIA made the surprising decision to shut down the World Factbook after more than sixty years of operation. This move was not...
Introducing the Data Checkup: A Framework for Assessing the Health of Federal Datasets
by Melanie Klein, Beth Jarosz, and Chris Dick The dataindex.us team is excited to launch the Data Checkup – a comprehensive framework for assessing the...
Take Action! Census of Agriculture and More
by Meghan Maury Census of the Week: 2027 Census of Agriculture. The Census of Agriculture is the primary source of statistics concerning the nation's...
Quick Takes: The Rise of the Data Sharing Agreement
by Meghan Maury The Privacy Act of 1974 was designed to give people at least some control over how the federal government uses and shares their personal...
Take Action! ASTP/ONC Deregulatory Actions and More
by Meghan Maury Proposed Rule of the Week: Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: ASTP/ONC Deregulatory Actions To Unleash Prosperity. This proposed...
Take Action! Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and More
by Meghan Maury Survey of the Week: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey — Household Component. MEPS collects data on the specific health services that Americans...
The Day Federal Data Went Dark: A Year of Monitoring and Action
January 31, 2025, is infamous as the day thousands of federal datasets and webpages went dark. While most of these resources have since been restored–often...
Take Action! American Community Survey and More
by Meghan Maury Survey of the Week: American Community Survey and Puerto Rico Community Survey. The ACS and PRCS collect detailed social, economic, housing,...
Take Action! HUD Requests for Information and More
by Meghan Maury RFIs of the Week: HUD issued two Requests for Information (RFIs) asking for public input on the continuation of specific surveys. If you are...
Take Action! National Survey of Children's Health and More
by Meghan Maury Survey of the Week: National Survey of Children's Health. The NSCH is designed to produce data on the physical and emotional health of...
Register for a Rapid Response Data Briefing: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
Did you know PRAMS is up for renewal? With the April 2025 layoff of the entire CDC team that managed PRAMS and disruptions to PRAMS data access and...
Take Action! Partnerships for Transformational Artificial Intelligence Models and More
by Meghan Maury Data RFI of the Week: Partnerships for Transformational Artificial Intelligence Models DOE intends to establish a public-private consortium...
Take Action — Collection and Use of Biometrics by USCIS and more
by Meghan Maury Data Regulation of the Week: Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Among other things, this proposed...
Take Action! Master Files of Social Security Number (SSN) Holders and SSN Applications and More
by Meghan Maury Data Sharing Notice of the Week: Master Files of Social Security Number (SSN) Holders and SSN Applications. Through this notice, SSA is...
In Remembrance of Dearly Departed Federal Datasets
by Denice Ross cross-posted from Federation of American Scientists On this All Hallow’s Eve, let us recognize the losses of datasets that served the American...
Uncovering Additional Threats to Food Security Data: Why the “Redundancy” Claim Doesn’t Hold Up
by Melanie Klein, Beth Jarosz, Ronette Briefel, and Gina Plata-Nino In late September, USDA terminated the Food Security Supplement (FSS) to the Current...
How You Can (and should) Shape Federal Data Collections
by Meghan Maury and Christopher Marcum The dataindex.us project revels in revealing insights into federal data - and who gets to influence them. Every survey...
Take Action! Conservation and Landscape Health Rule and More
by Meghan Maury Data Regulation of the Week: Rescission of Conservation and Landscape Health Rule. DOI's Bureau of Land Management is proposing to rescind...
Census 2020: Fraud or Fairly Conducted?
by Beth Jarosz, Chris Dick, and Dorian Caal Recently, Senator Banks from Indiana took to social media to criticize the quality of the 2020 Census. In this...
