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On average, households in the United States were billed $1.04 per square foot for energy usage across all energy sources in 2020. Those households identifying as energy insecure were billed $0.20 more per square foot than the national average and $0.26 more on average than households that did not experience [...]

The retail price for regular-grade gasoline in the United States on May 22, the Monday before Memorial Day weekend, averaged $3.53 per gallon (gal), 26% (or $1.24/gal) lower than the inflation-adjusted price a year ago. Memorial Day gasoline prices last year were the highest since 2012. The American Automobile Association [...]

Latest visualization from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics using data from the Annual Business Survey on product innovation trends. [...]

During the 2018–20 period, microbusiness research and development (R&D) performance increased for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries. In 2020, microbusinesses performed $5.6 billion of R&D. Data are from the 2021 Annual Business Survey: Data Year 2020, cosponsored by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within the National Science [...]

In 2020, male majority-owned microbusinesses (businesses with one to nine employees) performed 80% of the total $5.6 billion of domestic research and development, while female majority-owned microbusinesses accounted for 9% of the total. Data are from the 2021 Annual Business Survey: Data Year 2020, cosponsored by the National Center for [...]

Minority-owned microbusinesses accounted for 20% of the $5.6 billion of research and development performed by microbusinesses in 2020, while nonminority-owned microbusinesses accounted for 72% of the total. Data are from the 2021 Annual Business Survey: Data Year 2020, cosponsored by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within the [...]

Consumer Price Index (CPI): +0.4% in Apr 2023 News Release Historical Data Unemployment Rate: 3.4% in Apr 2023 News Release Historical Data Payroll Employment: +253,000(p) in Apr 2023 News Release Historical Data [...]

In our Issues in Focus: Effects of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports on the U.S. Natural Gas Market supplement to our Annual Energy Outlook 2023 (AEO2023), we find that the volumes of liquefied natural gas exports (LNG) do affect average U.S. natural gas prices. However, the resulting range in natural gas [...]

The Report on the Condition of Education 2023 is now available. Drawing from over a dozen data sources, the Condition of Education system provides a comprehensive description on the condition and progress of education in the United States. Topics from this report are explored in more detail in individual indicators [...]

Innovation is central to improvements in living standards and can have important impacts on individuals, businesses, and entire economic sectors. The Annual Business Survey is cosponsored by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within the National Science Foundation and by the Census Bureau and measures product innovation as [...]

Innovation is central to improvements in living standards and can have important impacts on individuals, businesses, and entire economic sectors. The Annual Business Survey is cosponsored by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within the National Science Foundation and by the Census Bureau, and measures product innovation as [...]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will end data collection for the 2022 Census of Agriculture on May 31. Producers who have not yet returned their completed questionnaires have just one week left to respond. Federal law requires everyone who received the ag census to [...]

In 2021, more natural gas was produced in Algeria than in any year since record-keeping began in 1980, according to the data in our recently updated Country Analysis Brief: Algeria. Algeria produced 9.9 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of dry natural gas in 2021, a 23.4% increase from the [...]

The detailed tables in this report present data from the 2021 Annual Business Survey (ABS) (data year 2020). The ABS is the primary source of data on research and development of for-profit, nonfarm businesses with one to nine employees operating in the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. [...]

We lowered our crude oil price forecast for the rest of 2023 and for 2024 in our May Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) because of relatively rapid declines in the crude oil price since April. Between April 12, 2023, and May 4, 2023, the Brent crude oil price fell $16 per [...]