📅 The Week Ahead: 2022 Year in Review

It's hard to believe this year is coming to an end!

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📌 More Observances

In December, we celebrate the 2022 Holiday Season.

Wednesday, December 21, is Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day and Crossword Puzzle Day. 

Learn about upcoming observances and celebrations with Stats for Stories.

Coming Soon: New Vintage 2022 Population Estimates

On Thursday, December 22, we will release the July 1, 2022 population estimates for the nation, states, and Puerto Rico, as well as corresponding annual estimates and components of change since the 2020 Census.

The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program produces estimates of the population for the United States, its states, counties, cities, and towns, as well as for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its municipios. Demographic components of population change (births, deaths, and migration) are produced at the national, state, and county levels of geography. 

Retail business owners, economists, and researchers will love discovering retail data the Census Bureau has to offer. In this Data Gem, we highlight the Monthly State Retail Sales tool, which easily allows you to compare year-over-year retail data by sector for national and state-level geographies.

This course covers a baseline understanding of geographic concepts and what a beginner needs to know to find Census Bureau data for their area of interest. You will learn about the types of geographies while creatively touring examples of them in the real world. Each module is followed by a bonus video demonstrating how to find a relevant geography in a Census Bureau data tool.

This course is designed for grant-writers, geographers, GIS-users, students, teachers and those who need to understand the underlying principles of Census Bureau geographic concepts to use our data.

U.S. merchant wholesalers had sales of $9,671.3 billion in 2021, a 20.4% increase from $8,034.8 billion in 2020, according to estimates from the Annual Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS) released recently by the Census Bureau.

The data are accompanied by a data visualization, which provides statistics for U.S. merchant wholesalers (excluding manufacturers' sales branches and offices).

Our participatory classes walk you through examples of creating tables in the Microdata Access Tool (MDAT) within data.census.gov. Microdata Access on data.census.gov/mdat allows you to create custom tables that are not available in the pre-made tables on data.census.gov without having to use your own statistical software or special programming.

Registration is required to attend these workshops. Attendance is limited to 50 participants per session.

• January 6: 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. ET
• January 19: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. ET
• January 30: 12:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. ET

🎂 Happy Birthday New Jersey!

On Sunday, December 18, we celebrated New Jersey's 235th anniversary of statehood.

🔎 Did you know? New Jersey is the 46th largest state by area and was the 3rd state to join the Union.

🌳 The state tree is the Red Oak.

🍅 The state nickname is the Garden State.

🌇 The largest city is Newark.

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💻 Upcoming Census Academy Webinars

• January 5: Census Business Builder (CBB) v5.0 Demonstration
• January 12: Using the Census Survey Explorer to Get Started
• January 18: Puerto Rico and the American Community Survey
  
• January 19: 2023 Commercial Outlook Businesses, Banks and International Trade
• January 26: Finding Your Way Through Census Bureau Geographies

📅 Releases This Week

Tuesday: New Residential Construction (Building Permits, Housing Starts, and Housing Completions)

Friday: Advance Report on Durable Goods --Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders

Friday: New Residential Sales

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.