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The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects most U.S. households will pay more to heat their homes this winter. In its 2022 Winter Fuels Outlook, EIA forecasts higher U.S. residential energy prices compared with last winter, as well as higher consumption of heating fuels during what is forecast to be [...]

Corn and soybean production is down from September 2022, according to the Crop Production report issued today by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Corn production is down 8% from last year, forecast at 13.9 billion bushels; soybean growers are expected to decrease their production 3% from 2021, forecast at [...]

The ORF public-use data file contains oral reading performance variables, student contextual information, NAEP reading scores and achievement-level and below NAEP Basic subgroup variables, and student sample weights and replicate weights, as well as background on the original study. [...]

A new Stats in Brief shows that the United States was the only TIMSS education system (of 29) where the score gap between high- and low-performing students widened between 2011 and 2019 in both mathematics and science at both the 4th and 8th grades. [...]

In 2020, 87.2% of residential care communities offered annual influenza vaccination to residents, and 77.8% offered annual influenza vaccination to all employees and contract staff members. The percentage of residential care communities offering annual influenza vaccination to residents and to all employees and contract staff members increased with increasing community [...]

The detailed tables in this report present data from the 2020 Annual Business Survey (ABS) (data year 2019). 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 [...]

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) will host the 2022-2023 Winter Energy Outlook webinar on Thursday, October 13, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. [...]

As part of its ongoing partnership with the Census Bureau, NCHS recently added questions to assess the prevalence of post-COVID-19 conditions, sometimes called “long COVID,” on the experimental Household Pulse Survey. Today, NCHS released the latest round of Pulse data, collected from September 14-26, 2022.  This latest release includes new data [...]

Businesses spent $538 billion on R&D performance in 2020, with $466 billion of funding from companies’ own sources and $71 billion from other sources. These amounts follow a 2-year period of double-digit annual growth in the level of national domestic R&D performance, and this robust performance seems likely to continue, [...]

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/podcasts/2022/20220930/20220930.htm HOST:  The COVID-19 pandemic took a major toll on the U.S. health care system.  In a new report released on September 28, data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey were used to examine how COVID-19 impacted physician practices around the country. Joining us to discuss that new study is Zach [...]

From 2016 to 2020, the percentage of residential care communities using electronic health records increased from 26% to 41%. The percentage using electronic health records increased from 28% to 41% for 11–25 bed communities, 35% to 54% for 26–50 bed communities, 43% to 71% for 51–100 bed communities, and 50% [...]

As of Sept. 1, there were 73.8 million hogs and pigs on U.S. farms, down 1% from September 2021 but up 2% from June 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). [...]

The average total amount of energy used per square foot in commercial buildings decreased by 12% from 2012 to 2018, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS). [...]

The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) are celebrating 50 years of working together to provide timely, accurate and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture. [...]

Corn, soybean, and cotton production is down from 2021, according to the Crop Production report issued today by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). [...]