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  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    Hi all, My name is Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Associate Professor of Economics and Business Analytics in the Maste of Science in Business Analytics at Mercer University. My research on Entrepreneurship and Business Development benefits from the information ...

  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    Thanks, Mark [and Hansi for being on the case]... This is very interesting. Roughly the same thing happened in 2017-2018, when the incoming Trump administration issued an FRN extending the comment period for a new SPD version that had been in the works ...

  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    Margo, Hansi Lo Wang is reporting that the Census Bureau has stopped plans to include the updated race and ethnicity question in the 2027 ACS. According to the regulatory supporting statement filed with OMB, the Bureau is citing a White House agency's ...

  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    I recently published a paper on SSRN that may be of interest to this group as a use case for Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics data. The paper uses BDS 2013–2023 exit rate data for mature firms - stratified by sector, employment size band, ...

  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    See https://thecensusproject.org/2026/05/15/follow-up-frn-on-the-acs-and-puerto-rico-community-survey/ Can someone who knows more, explain the ins and outs of what's going on here, particularly the omission in this FRN of the implications for ...