📅 The Week Ahead: Puerto Rico Webinar Series 💻
Explore upcoming webinars in our Puerto Rico webinar series to learn about data and resources for Puerto Rico.
This series covers data found in a wide range of Census Bureau surveys and programs, including workforce, business, and international trade data.
Upcoming Webinar
 Tuesday: Current Population Survey Modernization Efforts Webinar
The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) are set to hold the first in a joint webinar series to share updates and lay the groundwork for improvements to the Current Population Survey (CPS), one of the oldest, largest and most well-recognized surveys in the nation.
The CPS is the primary source of labor force statistics, a key Principal Federal Economic Indicator, and is used to collect critical data measuring the nation’s economic and social well-being through supplemental questions to the monthly basic CPS questions.Â
Date: Tuesday, October 24
Time: 2:00 p.m. ET
Press Kit: Current Population Survey Modernization
đź“Š Thursday: 2022 Annual Business Survey
On Thursday, the Census Bureau will release detailed data tables from the 2022 Annual Business Survey covering reference year 2021. Data will include estimates on the number of firms, receipts, payroll and employment by sector, sex, ethnicity, race and veteran status.
Tables show data on various owner and business characteristics at the national, state and metropolitan statistical area geographic levels.
Data will also include module characteristics of businesses statistics, showing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on employer businesses by sex, ethnicity, race and veteran status.Â
🍫 Saturday: National Chocolate Day
Saturday, October 28 is National Chocolate Day!
According to the 2021 Annual Survey of Manufactures, the value of shipments in the Chocolate and Chocolate Confectionery Manufacturing industry was $18.4 billion.
New Today: 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics Noisy Measurement FileÂ
Today the Census Bureau released the Noisy Measurement File associated with the 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics File. This research-based statistical product is the intermediate output of the new 2020 Disclosure Avoidance System’s TopDown Algorithm, which generates noisy measurements when it applies differentially private noise to each of the tabulations from the confidential data.
Noisy measurements help data users analyze the impact of the new 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System.Â
Stats for Stories and More
💼🥜 Sunday, October 22 was the start of Minority Enterprise Development Week. It was also National Nut Day.
💡 The Incandescent Light Bulb was created October 22-23.
🌎💼💡🦀 More observances in the month of October:
Learn about upcoming observances and celebrations with Stats for Stories.
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