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The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts an increase in demand for petroleum products during the 2021 summer driving season as the impacts of COVID-19 diminish in the United States. EIA’s annual Summer Fuels Outlook, released today with EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), expects a 15% increase in U.S. highway [...]

Planting has begun for barley, corn, cotton, oats, rice, sorghum, spring wheat, and sugarbeets, according to the first Crop Progress report issued for the 2021 planting season by U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). By this time last year, 2% of the corn crop had been planted, [...]

2020-21 Common Core of Data (CCD) Preliminary Files are now available. These files are the product of the CCD data collection for the 2020-21 school year. Data are reported at district and school levels as of October 1, 2020. These preliminary files include directory information, and some limited attributes [...]

New NCHS report provides additional information on drug overdose deaths involving cocaine and other psychostimulants (drugs such as methamphetamine, amphetamine, and methylphenidate) by examining the concurrent involvement of opioids. Trends from 2009 through 2019 and differences by census region in 2019 are presented. Findings: From 2009 through 2019, the rate of overdose [...]

In 2019, 18.0% of renters assessed their health as fair or poor, compared with 13.3% of homeowners. For each age group, renters were more likely than homeowners to report fair or poor health: 9.0% versus 6.0% among adults aged 18–39 years, 26.6% versus 13.2% among those aged 40–64 years, and 37.1% [...]

A new NCHS report presents maternal mortality rates for 2019 based on data from the National Vital Statistics System. A maternal death is defined by the World Health Organization as, “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and [...]

Summary JAMA released a new journal article, “Provisional Mortality Data — United States, 2020,” which presents an overview of provisional U.S. death data for 2020, including overall death rates and those associated with COVID-19. In 2020, more than 3.3 million deaths occurred in the United States overall.).  As part of overall [...]

Producers surveyed across the United States intend to plant an estimated 91.1 million acres of corn in 2021, up less than 1% from last year, according to the Prospective Plantings report released today by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). [...]

Between 2017 and 2019, the number of individuals receiving advanced science, engineering, and health (SEH) training at U.S. academic institutions increased by 7.8% for master's students, 4.2% for doctoral students, and 2.3% for postdocs. These data and the other findings in this report are from the 2017 through 2019 Survey [...]

This report presents data from the 2019 Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, sponsored by National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within the National Science Foundation and by the National Institutes of Health. The tables show trends within science, engineering, and selected health fields on [...]

A new NCES report, Highlights of School-Level Finance Data: Selected Findings From the School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS), School Years 2015-16 and 2016-17 provides evidence that comprehensive PK-12 education spending data can be effectively collected at the school level and utilized to evaluate differences in school spending based on various school [...]

This Data Point examines whether ability grouping was used to organize classes or students in public schools in the United States, by selected school characteristics. [...]

This Data Point compares child care arrangements for children from birth through age 5, in single-parent families and two-parent families. It also examines problems finding childcare. [...]

As of March 1, there were 74.8 million hogs and pigs on U.S. farms, down 2% from March 2020, and down 3% from December 1, 2020, according to the Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report published today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). [...]

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced today that it will release expanded monthly biofuels data through a new report—the Monthly Biofuels Capacity and Feedstocks Update. On March 31, 2021, EIA plans to publish the first edition of this report, which will contain January 2021 data. EIA will also modify [...]