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In 2018, when a resident was dying or died, 82% of Residential Care Communities (RCC) documented residents’ family, religious, or cultural preferences in their care plans, 79.9% discussed residents’ spiritual needs with them, 65.1% publicly honored deceased residents in the RCC, and 59.5% offered bereavement services to staff members and [...]

As of Sept. 1, there were 75.4 million hogs and pigs on U.S. farms, down 4% from September 2020 but up 1% from June 1, 2021, 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. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will hold its biannual Data Users’ Meeting virtually Oct. 13 and 14 from noon-3 p.m. ET. The meeting is free and open to the public. The Data Users’ Meeting is held to share recent and pending statistical program changes with [...]

There were more than 32,000 private schools in the United States in the fall of 2019, serving nearly 4.7 million students, according to new results from the 2019–20 Private School Universe Survey. Other data include school size, religious orientation, geographic region, community type, and program emphasis. [...]

The nonprofit sector is one of four major sectors of the economy, along with business, government, and higher education, that performs or funds research and development. The FY 2016 Nonprofit Research Activities Survey marks the first nationally representative collection of R&D data from the nonprofit sector in more than 20 [...]

Commercial buildings in the United States are getting larger, and they more commonly include features like LED lighting and emerging technologies such as electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS), the number of U.S. commercial buildings grew 6% from [...]

NCES recently published blogs on NCES-led AAPOR conference presentations; preliminary public school enrollment data from CCD; and highlights from the Back-to-School Fast Fact. [...]

NCES has released a new, updated version of DataLab, a platform of web-based tools that provide the public with access to data collected through NCES studies. DataLab allows users to search for published tables and produce their own statistics and figures using a free, on-line analysis tool. DataLab is for [...]

A new First Look report released by the National Center for Education Statistics describes the percentages of students receiving various types of financial aid and average amounts received, by type of institution attended and institution state. For example, in the 2017–18 academic year, 70 percent of undergraduate students received some [...]

This report examines R&D performed by U.S. higher education institutions. It discusses funding by source and S&E field for R&D activities and equipment and provides information on research space. It benchmarks the United States against other nations, and it looks at how academic R&D investments relate to investments in education [...]

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. Arts credits earned by high school graduates differed by students’’ background characteristics. The Data Point also shows differences in postsecondary enrollment by numbers of arts credits [...]

This preliminary set of web tables presents data findings from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) spring 2021 data collection. NCES does not regularly release preliminary data for the IPEDS data collection, however, due to the high level of interest in these data due to impacts of the coronavirus [...]

Corn, soybean, and cotton production is up from 2020, according to the Crop Production report issued today by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Corn production is up 6% from last year, forecast at 15.0 billion bushels; soybean growers are expected to increase their production 6% from 2020, forecast at [...]

The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects that natural gas prices will remain higher in the coming months following Hurricane Ida. In its September Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), EIA forecast fourth-quarter Henry Hub spot prices to average $4.00 per million British thermal units (MMBtu), a 16% increase from its August forecast. [...]

The Business Research and Development Survey (BRDS), sponsored by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the National Science Foundation, provides data on R&D expenditures and R&D employees for for-profit, publicly or privately held, nonfarm business in the United States that performed or funded R&D either domestically [...]