21. Department of Commerce · Minor
Examine the Economic Census to ensure it is not overly intrusive
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“As with the decennial census and ACS, it should be carefully examined to ensure the Economic Census is not overly intrusive. Additionally, the Census Bureau should work with other federal agencies to determine when data collection can be supplemented by industry and other federal business indicators.”
What has happened
- Not started
Nothing found. The Economic Census was not examined for intrusiveness and its content was not changed; the Annual Integrated Economic Survey that carries most of the program's burden cleared OMB unchanged on 2026-01-20 after an earlier clearance on 2025-08-21. Nothing records the Bureau working with other federal agencies to substitute industry or federal business indicators for direct collection.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Cluster negative search CENSUS-1 (chapter log): a jq pass over all 83 in-window Federal Register records whose agency is the Census Bureau — every information-collection notice, every deregulatory rule and every 2030 Census operational notice — plus the DOC/CENSUS slice of reginfo.gov’s Unified Agenda (seven RINs: boundary-date, seal, population-estimate-challenge, decennial-release, personal-data and fee housekeeping), plus grep -i census over nominations.ndjson (0 records) and over presidential-actions.ndjson (0). Also Federal Register full text since 2025-01-20 for "Economic Census" restricted
to the Census Bureau slug (the Annual Integrated Economic Survey and Annual Business Survey
clearances, all continuing collections) and for "administrative records" + Census.
The 2027 Economic Census is the next collection cycle and its content notices are not due until 2027, so this ask has an instrument that has not yet come round; that is recorded here rather than treated as evidence either way.
- Action
- other
- Object
- Economic Census
- ID
- 1893