The U.S. Census Bureau collects information from persons, households, and businesses in approximately 130 surveys every year. Once a decade, it gathers core demographic information on the entire U.S. population via the Decennial Census.
The Master Demographics project is a pilot to create a core set of high-quality demographics on any person who has ever been surveyed by the Census Bureau between 2000 and the present. The project has 3 goals: