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Written by: Robert L. Santos, Director
As my second year as director of the U.S. Census Bureau draws to a close, I have been reflecting on all that we’ve accomplished in 2023 – and it’s a lot. As a large agency with employees and offices dispersed across our nation, sometimes it can be hard to see the big picture of our achievements. So here are some of the highlights.
Our success lies in the ability to put relevant, useful statistical data into the hands of the public. This year brought a host of new data (along with easy-to-use infographics and data visualizations) that enable communities to plan for hospitals and schools, advance economic development, improve emergency services, construct roads, inform businesses looking to add jobs and more. Did you know Census Bureau data guided more than $2.8 trillion in federal funding distributed to states, communities, tribal governments and other recipients in FY 2021?
In 2023, we released a wealth of data on race and ethnicity in America, including from the 2020 Census Detailed Housing and Characteristics File (and Detailed DHC-A), Demographic Analysis and Population Estimates.
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America Counts: The Stories U.S. Census Bureau Data Told in 2023
As 2023 comes to a close, we review some of the year’s key demographic and economic trends and shifts that reshaped the nation.
U.S. Census Bureau surveys document many changes the country experiences, from increased diversity and how and where we live to the aging of the population and economic shifts.
In addition to the 2020 Census results and more recent population estimates and surveys, several experimental data products provided near real-time household and business statistics.
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