Take Action! National Health Interview Survey and More
by Meghan Maury Form of the Week: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). CDC is seeking approval to continue the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) in...
The Public Health Cost of Eliminating Race and Ethnicity Data
by Vi Le and Melanie Klein Imagine trying to solve a public health crisis without knowing which communities are being hit hardest. We are moving closer to...
Cancer Risk Is Still There, Even If the Data Isn't
by Tai Lung Disappearing Data Can you estimate someone's cancer risk from the air they breathe? Not exactly. Every person has different genetics, lifestyles,...
Take Action! Transformed-Medicaid Statistical Information System and More
by Meghan Maury Proposed Rule of the Week: Transformed—Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS). CMS is revising T-MSIS, the national beneficiary-...
How Will Methodology Restrictions Affect Demographic and Economic Data?
by Beth Jarosz, Jae June Lee, and Chris Dick On June 4, 2026 the Department of Commerce issued a new order “Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products”...
How Do We Track Terminations of Federal Data?
by Chris Dick and Denice Ross Federal data benefit American lives and livelihoods in ways most people never see, touching every corner of our lives. This...
Take Action! Removal of EEOC Reporting Requirements and More
by Meghan Maury Proposed Rule of the Week: Removal of Reporting Requirements. EEOC is proposing to abolish all six federal EEO workforce reports and their...
Take Action! SPD 8: NAICS and More
by Meghan Maury Statistical Policy Directive of the Week: SPD 8: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). OMB is seeking comment on proposed...
Take Action! Enforcement of Executive Order 14398 and More
by Meghan Maury Form of the Week: Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors (E.O. 14398) for Contract-Like Instruments. GSA is seeking approval...
Take Action! FEVS and More
by Meghan Maury Survey + Rule of the Week: Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. OPM is proposing to redesign the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey following...
Take Action! Reporting Portal for Civil Rights Violations and More
by Meghan Maury Form of the Week: Reporting Portal for Civil Rights Violations. In this notice, DOJ is seeking continued approval for its Civil Rights...
Take Action! HRSA Uniform Data System and More
by Meghan Maury Data System of the Week: HRSA Uniform Data System. In this notice, HRSA is revising the Uniform Data System, the annual reporting system used...
Register for Rapid Response Data Briefing: Critical Rulemaking for 2030 Census
The Department of Commerce has submitted a proposed rule to the Office of Management and Budget for review. The rule is titled “Decennial Census of the...
Take Action! RFI on Family Friendly Transit and More
by Meghan Maury RFI of the Week: RFI on Family Friendly Transit. In this RFI, DOT asks a number of questions about data that is available for (or that should...
Take Action! Consolidated State Performance Report Renewal and More
by Meghan Maury Collection of the Week: Consolidated State Performance Report Renewal. This reporting tool collects information from states related to the...
A New Commerce Policy Could Mean Less Public Data, Not Better Public Data
by Christopher Steven Marcum, Meghan Maury, and Beth Jarosz Late last week, the Department of Commerce quietly issued a sweeping new policy that could...
Take Action! American Community Survey, Puerto Rico Community Survey, and More
by Meghan Maury Due This Week: American Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS). The ACS and PRCS — sometimes called the “crown...
Take Action! Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors
by Meghan Maury Form of the Week: Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors. This new form will collect information necessary for compliance with...
An Automated Data Monitoring Toolkit and the AI Benchmarking Exercise at the Public Data Project
by Molly Hardy This post is being shared on both the dataindex.us newsletter and the Library Innovation Lab’s blog. “Is data changing? Is it being...
Take Action! Public Health/Public Safety Strategies to Reduce Drug Overdose Data Collection and More
by Meghan Maury Form of the Week: Public Health/Public Safety Strategies to Reduce Drug Overdose Data Collection. These forms collect data to improve...
