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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 [...]

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. [...]

Current expenditures per pupil on a national basis increased by 3.5 percent to $14,295 in FY 21, after adjusting for inflation. The states with the largest increases in current expenditures per pupil from FY 20 to FY 21, after adjusting for inflation, were Maine (11.9 percent), Arizona (7.6 percent), Montana (7.4 [...]

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is suspending data collection for two petroleum-related surveys: EIA-782A, Refiners'/Gas Plant Operators' Monthly Petroleum Product Sales Report, and EIA-782C, Monthly Report of Prime Supplier Sales of Petroleum Products Sold for Local Consumption. The two surveys primarily support data publication in its Petroleum Marketing Monthly [...]

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects that this summer will see the second-most U.S. natural gas consumption for electricity generation on record, surpassed only by last summer. EIA continues to expect significant growth in U.S. electricity generation from wind and solar, but the wet winter in California and the [...]

See national results on the performance of eighth-grade students from the 2022 NAEP Civics assessment. [...]

In its April Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) increased its forecast for the 2023 Brent crude oil price by 2.5% from its previous forecast. This change came after OPEC and its partner countries (OPEC+) announced crude oil production cuts for 2023. EIA expects the Brent [...]

As of March 1, there were 72.9 million hogs and pigs on U.S. farms, up slightly from March 2022 but down 2% from Dec. 1, 2022, according to the Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report published today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). [...]

U.S. households on average consumed less energy in 2020 than in 2009, according to newly released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS). RECS data show that households used an average of 76.8 million British thermal units (MMBtu) of energy, including electricity, natural gas, propane, [...]

U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions drop 25% to 38% below what they were in 2005 by 2030, according to projections from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2023 (AEO2023). By the end of the projection period, 2050, U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions are 17% lower in this year's Reference [...]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will hold its biannual Data Users’ Meeting April 18 from 1-4:30 p.m. CT at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City – Omaha Branch. A virtual attendance option will also be available. The meeting is free and open to the [...]

The Overview Technical Report provides general information about the Middle Grades Longitudinal Study of 2017-18 (MGLS:2017) and the data files and technical documentation that will be available separately through a research and development (R&D) license. [...]

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) will release its Annual Energy Outlook 2023 (AEO2023) at a virtual public event hosted by Resources for the Future (RFF). The AEO2023 models projections of domestic energy markets through 2050 to explore a variety of different assumptions about economic growth, world oil and natural [...]