📅 The Week Ahead: Play the Census Population Challenge! 🏀👏 

It’s game time!

There’s double madness at 22 schools whose men’s and women’s basketball teams are competing in this year's NCAA Tournament.

Explore Census Bureau data on these towns, and play our interactive 2024 college basketball population bracketology game. 

⛹️🏆 You May Be Interested In

• Census Infographics and Visualizations: Men's and Women's Basketball Population Game

📰 Stats for Stories

🍦🚑 March is Frozen Food Month and Red Cross Month. 

🎖️🛍️ Friday, March 29, is National Vietnam War Veterans Day and
Mom and Pop Business Owners Day.

👩‍⚕️Saturday, March 30, is National Doctors' Day.

🎓 April is Community College Month and Arab American Heritage Month. 

🤝 Thursday, April 4, is the 75th Anniversary of NATO. 

Learn about upcoming observances and celebrations with Stats for Stories.

Join us Thursday, March 28, for a webinar about how to access and use TIGERweb, a geographic application providing legal and statistical boundaries and physical features as a basis for tabulating Census Bureau data. Learn how your community is mapped in our system and explore how it has changed from census to census.

📝 Call for Workshop Presenters for the 2024 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop

The LEHD program is welcoming proposals to present at the 2024 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop held on May 14-16, 2024. The deadline to submit proposals has been extended until Monday, April 1.

We will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners and other data users through plenary sessions. This year’s theme is “Multidimensional Perspectives of the Labor Market,” and we are interested in presentations from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to: workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, economic analysis, and emergency management. We are particularly interested in examples from our state partners and strongly encourage LMI shops to apply.

📌 In Case You Missed It

About 6.7 million people or 3.3% of adults age 30 and over lived with their grandchildren in 2021, according to recently released Census Bureau data.

Nationally, roughly 32.7% of grandparents living with their grandchildren under the age of 18 were responsible for their care.

You May Be Interested In

• Census Publications: Grandparents and Their Coresident Grandchildren: 2021
  

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Upcoming Census Academy Webinars

• March 28: Taking the Guesswork Out of MDAT
• April 2: New Public School Counts and Census Educational Attainment Statistics for Puerto Rico
• April 10: Credit Insurance as a Risk Mitigation Tool for International Trade
• April 11: What are Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs)? Understanding When to Use this Geography
  
• April 17: Mom and Pop Shops Lead Job Recovery from Economic Downturn after Covid-19
• April 18: Using Census Data: A Case Study and Data Tools Walk Through
• April 25: Using County Business Patterns Non-Employer Statistics to Evaluate Change
• April 30: Estimados y Proyecciones de la Población de Puerto Rico

📅 Economic Indicators 

Monday: New Residential Sales

Tuesday: Advance Report on Durable Goods – Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders

Tuesday: Preliminary U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products

Friday: Advance Economic Indicators Report (International Trade, Retail, and Wholesale)

About the Census Bureau

We serve as the nation’s leading provider of quality data about its people and economy. The Census Bureau is the federal government's largest statistical agency. As the world’s premier statistical agency, we are dedicated to making our nation a better place. Policy-makers, businesses, and the public use our data to make informed decisions.