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Consumer Price Index (CPI): unchanged in Oct 2023 News Release Historical Data Unemployment Rate: 3.9% in Oct 2023 News Release Historical Data Payroll Employment: +150,000(p) in Oct 2023 News Release Historical Data [...]

The National Center for Education Statistics releases the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) High School Transcript Study (HSTS) User’s Guide and Technical Report on November 9, 2023. This report documents the procedures used to collect and summarize the data from the 2019 HSTS, a study that collected transcripts [...]

Academic institutions spent $97.8 billion on R&D in FY 2022, an increase of $8.0 billion in current dollars from FY 2021. Federal sources funded almost $54 billion (55%) of the total and accounted for $4.9 billion of the year-over-year increase. Academic R&D expenditures in all science fields combined increased by [...]

This publication releases data tables for the FY 2022 Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey. The tables present data on research and development expenditures at higher education institutions across all academic disciplines and include R&D expenditures by institution, R&D field, geographic area, source of funds, type of R&D (basic [...]

We project that global energy-related CO2 emissions from consumption of coal, liquid fuels, and natural gas will increase over the next 30 years across most of the cases we analyzed in our International Energy Outlook 2023 (IEO2023). [...]

The National Center for Education Statistics releases the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) High School Transcript Study (HSTS) 2019 restricted-use datasets for analyzing HSTS 2019 results. The 2019 NAEP HSTS analyzes transcripts from a national sample of U.S. public and private school graduates who also took 2019 NAEP [...]

U.S. coal-related CO2 emissions decreased by 7%, or 68 million metric tons (MMmt), in 2022 relative to 2021. This decrease was largely due to an 8% decline in coal-fired power generation because of retiring coal-fired generating capacity. Changes in electricity generation sources decreased the carbon intensity of electricity by 4% [...]

We forecast the U.S. energy sector to emit about 4,790 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2023, a 3% decrease from 2022. Much of this decline results from lower electricity generation from coal-fired power plants due to higher generation from renewable sources such as solar power. We expect [...]

State government agencies’ expenditures for research and development increased by 5.2% from FY 2021 to $2.6 billion in FY 2022. Although state government expenditures for R&D are relatively small within the national portfolio of R&D performance, state agencies themselves performed $697 million in R&D while also financing $1.953 billion in [...]

The 23 data tables in this report present FY 2022 and time series data for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Data are available on total R&D expenditures; intramural and extramural performers; source of funds; and R&D by governmental function by state and department or agency, [...]

Sales of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery-electric vehicles (BEV) in the United States rose to 17.7% of new light-duty vehicle sales in third-quarter 2023, according to data from Wards Intelligence. Sales of hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and BEVs have accounted for 15.8% of all new light-duty vehicle sales in the United [...]

On November 20, 2023, the Monday before Thanksgiving, the retail price of regular gasoline averaged $3.29 per gallon (gal) across the United States, 10% less than the same time last year. After adjusting for inflation (real terms), retail gasoline prices this Thanksgiving weekend are 13% lower than last year, but [...]

Five State Education Practices tables were released with 2020 and 2021 data on school attendance laws, prekindergarten programs, standards and teacher qualifications, early childhood school readiness, and state-level accountability and reporting. [...]

Today, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) mailed survey codes to a selected sample of irrigators across the 50 states with an invitation to respond online to the 2023 Irrigation and Water Management Survey. [...]

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will release the 2022 Census of Agriculture data on February 13, 2024. NASS concluded the data collection this summer with a preliminary national return rate of 61%. The ag census, conducted once every five years, was mailed to [...]