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...
Rapid Response Data Briefing: Understanding the Food Security Supplement
The Food Security Supplement (FSS) is a critical dataset. It provides the only nationally representative measure of household food insecurity, guiding...
Data Demands Put State FEMA Funds at Risk
by Mark Gross, Chris Dick, and Beth Jarosz Demography has historically been a quiet field with little time in the national spotlight. Between the three of...
What the Government Shutdown Means for Federal Information Collections and Data
a discussion between Beth Jarosz and Christopher Marcum Beth: Here at dataindex.us we are always keyed into the heartbeat of the federal data collection...
Register for 10/7 Webinar – Rapid Response Data Briefing: Understanding the Food Security Supplement
The Food Security Supplement (FSS) is a critical dataset. It provides the only nationally representative measure of household food insecurity, guiding...
Take Action! Annual Business Survey and More
by Meghan Maury Survey of the Week: Annual Business Survey. The ABS provides information on measures of research and development (R&D) as well as business...
Forsaking Food Security
by Chris Dick and Beth Jarosz How often are Americans concerned that their food will run out before they have money to buy more? Or that they did not have...
Take Action! Unemployment Compensation and More
by Meghan Maury Data Regulation of the Week: Unemployment CompensationFederal-State Unemployment Compensation (UC) Program; Data Availability. DOL is...
Take Action! Individuals with Disabilities Act and More
by Meghan Maury Collection of the Week: Annual State Application Under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Act. This set of forms is used to...
100s of Information Collections Influenced by Presidential Actions in the First 6 Months of the Trump Administration
by Melanie Klein Highlights: Six Months of Submissions to Reginfo.gov 422 information collection requests (ICRs), representing 400 unique information...
How to Make the FEVS Better
by Peter Bonner Recommendations to improve the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) without cancelling it. This is the second in a two-part series on the...
Take Action! Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and More
by Meghan Maury Collection of the Week:Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). ED is proposing to add a new “Admissions and Consumer...
Take Action! Public Housing and More
by Meghan Maury SpotlightPublic housing: Allocation of Operating Funds under the Operating Fund Formula: Data Collection. This series of forms is used by...
Take Action! Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection and More
by Meghan Maury Collection of the Week:Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). The CRDC collects data related to the civil rights laws' requirement...
Statement on Reginfo.gov Restoration
Since dataindex.us relies on updates to information collection requests (ICRs) from the federal RegInfo site, we have been closely monitoring changes while...
By Eliminating the 2025 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) We Lose A Critical Performance Feedback Loop
by Peter Bonner This is the first of two blog posts on cancelling the 2025 FEVS. Look for “How to Improve Future FEVS (and employee feedback)” next. Feedback...
Take Action! National Prisoner Statistics Program and More
by Meghan Maury Survey of the Week: National Prisoner Statistics Program (NPS). DOJ is making a number of changes to its NPS program, which collects...
You're Invited to a Rapid Response Data Briefing on the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey
Did you know that there are changes proposed for the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)? Join us to learn: What's in MCBS?Why is MCBS important?What...
Are We Ready for 2025 Wildland Fire Season?
Modeling the Impact of Recent Workforce Policy on Federal Program Delivery by Bernie Kluger Among the datasets prominent in America’s Data Index is the...
Statement on Reginfo.gov Undergoing Revisions
dataindex.us relies on updates to information collection requests (ICRs) from the federal RegInfo site. As best we can tell, that site went offline on...
Take Action! Weigh in on Federal Surveys and Forms 2025-08-13
by Meghan Maury Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that...
Take Action! Weigh in on Federal Surveys and Forms 2025-07-30
by Meghan Maury Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that...
Take Action! Weigh in on Federal Surveys and Forms 2025-07-28
by Meghan Maury Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that...
Uncovering Changes to Federal Data: 07/05/2025 – 07/11/2025 ICR Roundup
by Melanie Klein Since January 20, 2025, new Presidential Actions, such as Executive Orders and Proclamations, have required federal agencies to subtly...
Take Action! Weigh in on Federal Surveys and Forms 2025-07-16
by Meghan Maury Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that...
Uncovering Changes to Federal Data: 06/28/2025 – 07/04/2025 ICR Roundup
by Melanie Klein Since January 20, 2025, new Presidential Actions, such as Executive Orders and Proclamations, have required federal agencies to subtly...
Rapid Response Data Briefing: American Time Use Survey
Missed our rapid response data briefing on the future of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS)? We’ve got you covered.You can watch the full recording here to...
You're invited to a Rapid Response Webinar on the American Time Use Survey
Did you know that the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) is up for renewal? dataindex.us, PRB, and APDU are partnering to bring together a "Rapid Response"...
Take Action! Weigh in on Federal Surveys and Forms: 2025-07-04
by Meghan Maury Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that...
Uncovering Changes to Federal Data: 06/21/2025 – 06/27/2025 ICR Roundup
by Melanie Klein Since January 20, 2025, new Presidential Actions, such as Executive Orders and Proclamations, have required federal agencies to subtly...
Take Action! Weigh in on Federal Surveys and Forms: 2025-06-27
by Meghan Maury Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that...
Federal Surveys Aren't Perfect, But They're Vital to Our Imperfect Democracy
by Beth Jarosz My house has a window that sticks. Locking that window requires perfectly aligned closure and a bit of arm strength. That window is annoying....
Uncovering Changes to Federal Data: 06/14/2025 – 06/20/2025 ICR Roundup
by Melanie Klein Since January 20, 2025, new Presidential Actions, such as Executive Orders and Proclamations, have required federal agencies to subtly...
Take Action!
by Meghan Maury Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that...
Uncovering Changes to Federal Data: 06/07/2025 – 06/13/2025 ICR Roundup
by Melanie Klein Since January 20, 2025, new Presidential Actions, such as Executive Orders and Proclamations, have required federal agencies to subtly...
Why We Need a New Tool to Track Changes to Federal Data
by Beth Jarosz Late last year I, along with a group of talented colleagues, was helping to organize a National Academies workshop on communicating the...
Uncovering Changes to Federal Data: 05/31/2025 — 06/06/2025 ICR Roundup
by Melanie Klein Since January 20, 2025, new Presidential Actions, such as Executive Orders and Proclamations, have required federal agencies to subtly...
Uncovering Changes to Federal Data: 05/24/2025 — 05/30/2025 ICR Roundup
by Melanie Klein Since January 20, 2025, new Presidential Actions, such as Executive Orders and Proclamations, have required federal agencies to subtly...
Reading Between the Forms: How Executive Orders are Quietly Reshaping Federal Data
by Melanie Klein Federal data collections leave a digital trail as they evolve, but some footprints are easier to spot than others. Since January 20, 2025,...
Intro to the Information Collection Request (ICR)
by Melanie Klein An Information Collection Request (ICR) is a federal agency’s request for approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to collect...