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New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (NYCHVS)
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Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE)
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Statistics in Schools
Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
Survey of Market Absorption of New Multifamily Units (SOMA)
Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD)
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Telephone Point of Purchase Survey (TPOPS)
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Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS)
Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs (ASE)
Annual Survey of Jails (ASJ)
Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM)
Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll (ASPEP)
Annual Survey of Public Pensions (ASPP)
Annual Survey of School System Finances
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Annual Survey of State Government Finances (ASFIN)
Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections (STC)
Annual Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS)
Building Permits Survey (BPS)
Business and Professional Classification Survey (SQ-CLASS)
Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)
Business Enterprise Research and Development Survey (BERD)
Business Expenses Supplement (BES)
Business Formation Statistics (BFS)
Business R & D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS)
Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS)
Census of Governments (COG)
Census of Jails (COJ)
Census of Juveniles in Resident Placement (CJRP)
Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities
Center for Economic Studies (CES)
Center for Enterprise Dissemination (CED)
Commodity Flow Survey (CFS)
Common Core of Data (CCD)
Consolidated Federal Fund Report (CFFR)
Construction Progress Reporting Survey (CPRS)
County Business Patterns (CBP)
Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS)
Current Industrial Reports (CIR)
Directory Survey of Local Governments
E-Commerce Statistics (E-STATS)
Economic Census (EC)
Economic Census 2021 Industry Classification Report
Education Demographic, Geographic, and Economic Statistics (EDGE) Survey
Enterprise Statistics Program (ESP)
Export Statistics
Exports from Manufacturing Establishments
Federal Assistance Awards Data System (FAADS)
Federal Audit Clearinghouse (FAC)
Foreign Trade Statistical Program
Governments Integrated Directory (GID)
Governments Units Survey (GUS)
Import Statistics
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Survey
International Trade Program
Justice Assistance Data Survey
Justice Expenditure and Employment Extracts
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' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Survey (M3)
Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders (M3UFO) Survey
Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey (MECS)
Manufacturing Technology Survey
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS)
Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (MWTS)
Mortality in Correctional Institutions (MCI)
National Juvenile Justice Directory Program
National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) Program
National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS)
National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS)
New Residential Construction (NRC)
New Residential Sales (NRS)
Nonemployer Statistics
Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS)
Pollution Abatement Costs & Expenditures Survey (PACE)
Property Owners and Managers Survey (POMS)
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)
Rental Housing Finance Survey (RHFS)
Report of Organization
Service Annual Survey (SAS)
Small Business Lending Survey
Small Business Pulse Survey
State Library Administrative Agencies Survey (SLAA)
Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB)
Survey of Business Owners (SBO)
Survey of Construction (SOC)
Survey of Sexual Victimization (SSV)
Survey of State Government Research and Development (SGRD)
The Military Panel
Total Business Ownership by Demographics (TBOD)
Value of Construction Put in Place Survey
Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS)

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February 06, 2024

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November 05, 2018

U.S. Census Bureau staff presented to the National Advisory Committee (NAC) and gave an update on how we plan to efficiently and effectively reach hard-to-count communities.
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Improving Our Count of Young Children

July 02, 2018

By conducting the decennial census, the Census Bureau aims to count everyone living in the United States once, only once, and in the right place.