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Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released 2018 Census of Agriculture data for American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This is the first update to agricultural data for the four areas in over 10 years. [...]

During 2016–2018, women aged 18 years or older were more likely to volunteer or work in a hospital, medical clinic, doctor's office, dentist's office, nursing home, or some other health care facility (health care settings) than were men (12.3% compared with 5.2%). Non-Hispanic black (15.8%), Asian (12.8%), and white women (12.3%) [...]

Questions for Danielle Ely, Health Statistician and Lead Author of “Infant Mortality in the United States, 2018: Data From the Period Linked Birth/Infant Death File.” Q: Why does NCHS conduct studies on infant mortality? DE: NCHS collects data from U.S. jurisdictions on infant deaths to provide national statistics on infant mortality. Infant [...]

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm [...]

Questions for Robin Cohen, Health Statistician and Lead Author of “Selected Financial Burdens of Health Care Among Families With Older Adults, by Family Composition: United States, 2017–2018.” Q: Why did you decide to do a report on financial burdens to health care among U.S. families with older adults? RC: Living arrangements are [...]

Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2019 covers topics such as victimization, school conditions, school environment, safety and security measures at school, and criminal incidents at postsecondary institutions. This year''s report also includes indicators on the provision of mental health services in public schools and the prevalence of school and [...]

This set of provisional web tables includes fully edited and imputed data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) fall 2019 collection, which included three survey components: Institutional Characteristics for the 2019-20 academic year, Completions covering the period July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019, and data on 12-Month [...]

Three years after enrolling, 52 percent of beginning 2011–12 certificate students had attained a credential, while 18 percent of beginning associate''s degree students had done so. In addition, three years after enrolling, 72 percent of certificate completers and 77 percent of associate''s degree completers were employed, higher rates than their [...]

2019-20 Common Core of Data (CCD) Preliminary Directory Files are now available. These files are the product of the Common Core of Data (CCD) data collection for the 2019-20 school year. Data are reported at district and school levels as of October 1, 2019. These preliminary files include directory [...]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) estimated 92.0 million acres of corn planted in the United States for 2020, up 3% from last year, according to the Acreage report released today. Soybean area planted is estimated at 83.8 million acres, up 10% from last year. [...]

As of June 1, there were 79.6 million hogs and pigs on U.S. farms, up 5 percent from June 2019, and up 3 percent from March 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). [...]

NAEP 2019 National and State Mathematics and Reading, and Puerto Rico Mathematics (Grades 4 & 8) Restricted-Use Data Files [...]

This report describes the contents of a response process dataset released from students' interactions with a NAEP digitally based assessment. [...]

This Statistics in Brief provides information about the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) occupational expectations of high school freshmen in 2009 and how their expectations changed (or did not) by the spring of 2012. [...]

Nearly one third of students expected to have a job in healthcare at age 30 either when they were freshmen in high school in 2009 or in 2012. A higher percentage of females than males expected to have a job in healthcare at age 30. [...]