Support of Federal Statistical System
The ASA actively supports the federal statistical agencies through work with other stakeholders, the ASA Board, and others. This work includes Count on Stats, a public relations campaign launched in January 2018 “to advance the federal statistical system and awareness of its far-reaching benefits to our government, economy, and society.”
Autonomy and Budgets
Letters organized, signed, and/or sent
Tracking the Heads of the Federal Statistical Agencies
Tracking the budgets of the federal statistical agencies:
- FY25 NIH, NSF, and AHRQ Budget Developments; FY25 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
- FY23 Budgets, FY24 Budget Request Show Strong Support for Research, Statistical Agencies
- FY24 NIH, NSF, and AHRQ Budget Developments; FY24 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
- Administration Releases FY23 Budget Request as Congress Finalizes FY22 Budget
- Biden Administration’s First Budget Request Favors NIH, NSF; Flat Funds Education, Energy, Health, Justice Statistics
- FY23 NIH, NSF, and AHRQ Budget Developments; FY23 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
- FY22 NIH, NSF, and AHRQ Budget Developments; FY22 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
- FY21 Federal Budget Finalized
- FY20 Budget Brings Increases for NIH, Select Statistical Agencies
- Federal statistical agency budgets back to FY03
- FY21 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
- FY20 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
- FY19 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
- FY17 Federal Budget Resolved; Trump’s FY18 Budget Request Released, Amstat News, July 2017.
- FY18 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
- Trump Administration's FY18 Budget Blueprint Outlines Non-Defense Budget Cuts
- FY17 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
- FY17 Requests for NIH, NSF, Federal Statistical Agencies Largely Positive
- Final FY16 Spending Bill Provides Increases for NIH, Census, Statistical Agencies
- FY16 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
- FY16 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
- FY15 Budgets for NIH, NSF, Federal Statistical Agencies Finalized
- FY15 Budget Request Provides Mixed News for NIH, NSF, Statistical Agencies
- NIH, NSF, Statistical Agencies Receive Final FY14 Budgets
- FY14 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
- FY14 Statistical Agency Budget Request
- FY14 Budget Request for NIH, NSF, and Statistical Agencies
- Congress Finalizes FY13 Budgets
- FY13 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
- FY13 Statistical Agency Budget Requests: Requested Increases for Many Statistical Agencies
- FY13 Budget Request: Flat Funding to Significant Increases for NIH, NSF, Statistical Agencies
- FY12 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
- FY12 Statistical Agency Budget Requests
- Administration Affirms Role of Data-Driven Decision-Making with FY12 Budget Requests
- Science and Statistical Agencies Fare Well in 2011 Budget Request
- FY11 Budget Deal: Impacts on Science and Statistical Agency Budgets
Raising the Profile of Federal Statistical Agencies
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Data to Help Our Economy, Workforce, and Families Thrive, one-pager on importance of BLS data.
National Center for Education Statistics: Data to Help Our Schools, Students, and Families Thrive, one-pager on importance of NCES data.
Cosponsorship of congressional briefings relevant to federal statistics
Meetings with congressional staff
American Community Survey one-pager
Celebration of World Statistics Day
ASA Board of Director’s Actions
ASA Board of Directors Statement of Concern for the USDA Economic Research Service and on the Vital and Unique Role of Federal Statistical Agencies
ASA Board Decries Second Annulment of Former Greece Chief Statistician’s Acquittal
ASA Board issues Statement Regarding Decision to Add Citizenship Question to Decennial Census
ASA endorses United States Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking final report: The Promise of Evidence-Based Policymaking
ASA Endorses Sixth Edition of Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency
ASA endorses 4th Edition of Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency
Meetings with the Interagency Council of Statistical Policy regarding workforce pipeline and other issues
ASA endorses 5th Edition of Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency
ASA Board endorses National Center for Education Statistics recommendations in AERA Report and Recommendations for Reauthorization of Institute of Education Sciences
Articles
Interviews with federal statistical agencies heads: See the hyperlinked names in Table 1 of the agency leadership blog post.
Why Would USDA Shoot Itself in the Foot?
Census-FNS-ERS Partnership Delivers Unique Products by Leveraging Data
NCHS Director Addresses Challenges for Federal Statistical Agencies
Big Data: A Perspective from the BLS
Toward a Vision: Official Statistics and Big Data
The State of Web Mapping at the U.S. Energy Information Administration
Wanted! Statisticians in the Federal Statistical System
How I Spent My Year at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Data Synchronization: Leveraging Existing Business Data to Better Measure the Economy
Restructuring Research at the Census Bureau
Challenges Facing Federal Statistics in the United States (PDF download)
In Dire Straits: The Urgent Need to Improve Economic Statistics (PDF download)
On Planning for the 2020 Census (PDF download)
Saying Goodbye to SOI (PDF download)
Agency IT Centralization and Ramifications for Statistical Agencies (PDF download)
Other Links
National Academies’ Committee on National on Statistics
Office of Management and Budget’s Statistical Programs and Standards
America by the Numbers
NASS’s “Safeguarding America’s Agricultural Statistics” (video)
Improving the Federal Statistical System: Report of the Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Government Statistics
Improving the Federal Statistical System: Report of the President’s Reorganization Project for the Federal Statistical System
Recent Efforts to Maximize Benefits from the Statistics of Income Advisory Panel (PDF download)