List of All Surveys and Programs

2020 Census

The 2020 Census marked the 24th count of the U.S. population and the first time that households were invited to respond to the census online.

Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services (MARTS)

Provides an early indication of sales of retail and food service companies.

American Community Survey (ACS)

The American Community Survey is the premier source for information about America's changing population, housing and workforce.

American Housing Survey (AHS)

The AHS is sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

American Time Use Survey (ATUS)

The ATUS measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, childcare, volunteering, and socializing.

Annual Business Survey (ABS) Program

Provides annual data on select economic and demographic characteristics of employer businesses, including annual R&D estimates.

Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES)

Provides estimates on business spending for new and used structures and equipment.

Annual Parole Survey and Annual Probation Survey

These surveys collect administrative data from probation and parole agencies in the U.S. Published data include both national and state-level data.

Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS)

The Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS) produces industry-level estimates of sales, expenses, and other items for the retail sector in the U.S. each year.

Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs (ASE)

Provides estimates of number of firms, sales/receipts, annual payroll, and employment by sex, ethnicity, race, and veteran status.

Annual Survey of Jails (ASJ)

Collects data from a nationally representative sample of local jails on jail inmate populations, jail capacity, and related information.

Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM)

Provides estimates on manufacturing activity, products, and location for the public and private sectors.

Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll (ASPEP)

Provides state and local government data on full-time and part-time employment, part-time hours worked, full-time equivalent employment, and payroll statistics.

Annual Survey of Public Pensions (ASPP)

The Survey of Public Pensions provides revenues, expenditures, financial assets, and membership information for the defined benefit public pensions.

Annual Survey of School System Finances

Provides statistics about the finances of elementary and secondary public school systems.

Annual Survey of State Government Finances

State Government Finances provides a comprehensive summary of annual survey findings for state governments.

Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections (STC)

The STC provides a summary of taxes collected by state for 5 broad tax categories and up to 25 tax subcategories.

Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances

Statistics on revenue, expenditure, debt, and assets (cash and security holdings) for governments.

Annual Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS)

AWTS is conducted every year to provide detailed industry measures of sales, inventories, operational expenses and purchases for wholesale trade activities.

Ask U.S. Panel Pilot

The Ask U.S. Panel pilot invites households to participate in an initiative to improve the ways the federal government collects information from the public.

Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS)

The Census Bureau conducts the BAS annually to collect information about selected legally defined geographic areas.

Building Permits Survey (BPS)

The purpose of the Building Permits Survey is to provide national, state, and local statistics on new privately-owned residential construction.

Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)

Tabulations of establishment openings/closings, firm startups/shutdowns, and job creation/destruction, with unique information on firm age and firm size.

Business Enterprise Research and Development (BERD) Survey

Provides detailed statistics on global and domestic R&D expenses of U.S. based companies and statistics on R&D workforce, IP and technology transfer activities.

Business Expenses Supplement (BES)

Compiles statistics on business operating expenses.

Business Formation Statistics (BFS)

Tabulations on business applications and formations in the U.S. at quarterly frequency, including projections for recent and future quarters.

Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS)

Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS)

Provides insights with timely, high frequency data across all nonfarm sectors of the economy.

Business and Professional Classification Survey

Obtains information necessary to identify and classify businesses to update the samples for current business surveys and the Economic Census.

Census of Governments

Identifies the scope and nature of the nation's state and local government sector including public finance and public employment and classifications.

Census of Jails

Collects information on each facility, including admissions and releases, use of space, crowding, staffing, inmate work assignments, and counseling programs.

Census of Juveniles in Resident Placement (CJRP)

Collects detailed information on youth residing in detention, correctional, and other shelter facilities.

Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities

Provides information on the types of inmates housed, facility age and type, building plans, security level, security conditions, and staff characteristics.

Center for Economic Studies (CES)

CES partners with stakeholders to improve measures of the economy and people of the United States through research and development of innovative data products.

Commodity Flow Survey (CFS)

CFS is a joint project of Census and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics producing data on the movement of goods in the United States.

Common Core of Data (CCD)

Collects fiscal and non-fiscal data about all public schools, public school districts and state education agencies in the United States.