Changes to the Federal Statistical System in November

Federal Statistical Agencies Resume Operations: Statistical agency staff returned to work on November 17, along with the rest of the federal government. Since then, they have been issuing updated release schedules for the products affected by the shutdown. We learned the Bureau of Labor Statistics would not issue a November "jobs" report or October's consumer price report, as key data were not collected in October, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis cancelled the release of its advance estimate of third-quarter Gross Domestic Product.

Laid-Off National Center for Health Statistics Employees Back at Work: The approximately 110 NCHS employees who received reduction-in-force notices in October were called back to work in November.

Bureau of Economic Analysis Continues Streamlining: BEA announced it would be discontinuing statistics on activities of U.S. multinational enterprises as part of ongoing streamlining initiatives. This is their fifth such announcement this year and the 10th early 2024. 

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Join the ASA "Federal Statistics Health" project team for their release of "The Nation's Data at Risk: 2025 Report"! The report updates the team's assessment of the health of the federal statistical agencies since its July 2024 release of its inaugural report:https://bit.ly/NationsDataAtRisk.


The report will go online at 7 am ET on December 10 at the project website: https://bit.ly/FedStatHealth.


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As part of the American Statistical Association project assessing and monitoring the health of the federal statistical agencies, the project team is launching a citizen science project. This project aims to help track changes in federal statistical data releases (e.g., granularity, frequency, timeliness, and other characteristics), which could be improvements or deteriorations.





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It is you, the data user community, who are the most knowledgeable and invested, and therefore best positioned to help us track such changes given the number, breadth, and detail of the federal statistical agency products. 


We are committed to being as respectful of your time as possible. Beginning later this year, we will send an email query every 3 to 4 months asking if you have observed any changes in the statistical agency products you follow most closely. If so, we will ask you to provide us with the details and documentation via a Google form provided with the email query. 
 

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