đź“… The Week Ahead:
Global Diversity Awareness Month
This month, we celebrate Global Diversity Awareness Month, honoring how diversity and inclusion can serve as a catalyst for achieving excellence and advancing equity.
Explore Census Bureau data and learn more about other October observances by checking out our By the Numbers page.
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America Counts: Nation’s Teachers More Diverse but Still Lag Racial, Ethnic Makeup of Students
Monthly Feature: October 2022: By the Numbers
đź“Ś More Observances
This coming Saturday, October 22, we mark National Nut Day.
On October 22-23, we celebrate the anniversary of Thomas Edison's invention of the incandescent light bulb.
This October, we celebrate Global Diversity Awareness Month, and we mark National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
National Energy Awareness Month and National Seafood Month also take center stage in October.
Additionally, October is Polish-American Heritage Month and Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month.
In his latest Hispanic Heritage Month blog post, Director Robert Santos shares his thoughts on identity and diversity.
Learn how his leadership role at the Census Bureau has propelled his identity journey.
On October 13, the U.S. Census Bureau released data from the Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS), a survey that measures business conditions on an ongoing basis. The BTOS is the successor to the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS), a high-frequency survey that measured the effect of changing business conditions during the coronavirus pandemic and other major events like hurricanes on our nation’s small businesses.
The BTOS increases the scope of the SBPS to include large single-location employer businesses (those with 500 or more employees). It provides insight into the state of the economy by providing continuous, timely data for key economic measures every two weeks.
StatVentures, an initiative of Census Open Innovation Labs (COIL), will scout technology through collaborations with nongovernment innovators to ensure the U.S. Census Bureau continues to provide quality data effectively and efficiently. Through multiphase competitions, StatVentures will invite participants to propose new ways the Census Bureau can collect and improve the nation’s supply chain data.
With the advent of e-commerce, changes in logistics processes and technologies and adoption of emerging technologies to enable new data streams, the Census Bureau wants to explore additional data sources and measurement techniques to supplement or supplant its current products and methodologies. StatVentures will work through a multiphase process. During the first phase, 10 winners will be awarded $10,000 each and invited to join a cohort of innovators in the next phase. In two subsequent phases of competition, these teams will work with the Census Bureau to develop their concepts into working models with the potential for adoption by the Census Bureau.
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