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Consumer Price Index (CPI): -0.1% in Dec 2022 News Release Historical Data Unemployment Rate: 3.5% in Dec 2022 News Release Historical Data Payroll Employment: +223,000(p) in Dec 2022 News Release Historical Data [...]

In 2021, U.S. proved reserves of crude oil and lease condensate increased 16% from 2020, totaling 44.4 billion barrels, according to our recently released Proved Reserves of Crude Oil and Natural Gas in the United States, Year-End 2021 report. Proved reserves decreased 19% in 2020 because of pandemic-related constraints on [...]

On December 23, 2022, natural gas consumption in the U.S. Lower 48 states reached a daily record high of 141.0 billion cubic feet (Bcf), according to estimates from S&P Global Commodity Insights. The previous record was 137.4 Bcf, set on January 1, 2018. Below-normal temperatures in mid- to late December [...]

This Data Point uses data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), a national study of more than 23,000 ninth-graders in 2009. Students answered surveys between 2009 and 2016. College transcripts and financial aid records were collected in 2017–18 in the Postsecondary Education Transcript Study and Student Financial [...]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) reminds our nation’s farmers and ranchers that the deadline to respond to the 2022 Census of Agriculture is Feb. 6. Producers can respond online at agcounts.usda.gov or by mail. [...]

Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities have historically been underrepresented in the science and engineering (S&E) enterprise. The report Diversity and STEM: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities 2023 provides statistical information about these three groups in the context of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). This biennial report assesses [...]

Proved reserves of natural gas in the United States grew to a new record of 625.4 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) in 2021, a 32% increase from 2020, according to our recently released Proved Reserves of Crude Oil and Natural Gas in the United States, Year-End 2021 report. U.S. proved reserves [...]

The coronavirus pandemic has had a profound effect on the education, employment, and professional activities of many individuals worldwide since its emergence in early 2020. The magnitude of COVID-related employment disruptions for U.S.-trained doctorate recipients can be characterized as modest. This InfoBrief presents findings from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients [...]

Tables from the 2021 Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR) present data on the demographic characteristics, labor force status, occupations, employment sector, and median annual salaries of individuals with a U.S. research doctoral degree in a science, engineering, or health (SEH) field. The 2021 cycle of the SDR also had content [...]

The number of college graduates in the United States reached nearly 68.6 million in 2021, of which approximately 68 million had ever held a job, with nearly 52 million currently employed and 16 million not employed. Although the number of employed college graduates increased by 1.2 million (2.5%) between 2019 [...]

These tables were compiled using data from the 2021 National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG). The NSCG, conducted by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within the National Science Foundation, is a repeated cross-sectional biennial survey that collects information on the nation’s college-educated workforce. This survey is a [...]

The FY 2023 proposed federal budget authority for research and development and R&D plant totaled $191 billion, up 12.7% from the proposed FY 2022 amount (preliminary amount before the FY 2022 omnibus appropriations bill was passed on 10 March 2022). Under the FY 2023 proposal, R&D and R&D plant for [...]

This report contains data on the budget authority provided to U.S. federal agencies to fund the research and development (R&D) and R&D plant components of their programs in FYs 2021–23. The tables in this report provide this budget authority detail by agency and major programs for each of the governmental [...]

Natural gas-fired power plants generated 2% of the electricity produced in Pennsylvania in 2001. Over the next 20 years, natural gas-fired generation in the state increased rapidly, reaching 52% in 2021. Natural gas displaced most coal-fired generation, which fell from 57% of the electricity generated in Pennsylvania in 2001 to [...]

In our January 2023 Short-Term Energy Outlook, we forecast that crude oil production in the United States will average 12.4 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2023 and 12.8 million b/d in 2024, surpassing the previous record of 12.3 million b/d set in 2019. In 2022, U.S. crude oil production [...]