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Fiscal Year 2024 News

  • On September 27, 2024, OMB published the 2025 schedule of release dates for Principal Federal Economic Indicators. For more information on this and OMB Statistical Policy Directive No. 3, see the Policies page.
  • The Interagency Council on Statistical Policy recently adopted Fiscal Years 2025 and 2026 Strategic Goals and Objectives. These Goals and Objectives propel the U.S. Federal statistical system toward our vision of operating as a seamless system — to become more efficient and effective in providing useful, objective, high-quality statistical data and meaningfully and safely expanding access to these data for evidence-building purposes. To learn more about the ICSP and its FY25–FY26 Strategic Goals and Objectives, visit our About Us page.
  • On June 12, 2024, OMB published a Federal Register Notice (FRN) on Statistical Policy Directive No. 10: Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System. This FRN publicly announces the start of the 2028 SOC revision cycle and seeks comment on potential revisions for 2028. The SOC classifies all occupations in the U.S. economy, including private, public, and military occupations. The purpose of its 10-year review and revision cycle is to maintain currency and ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the Federal statistical system, as well as enable continued comparability and relevance of statistical data produced by statistical agencies. Accordingly, this process is designed exclusively for statistical purposes – that is, not for regulatory, enforcement, program administration, or other non-statistical purposes. Comments are due by August 12, 2024, and can be submitted on regulations.gov under Docket ID “BLS-2024-0001”.
  • Improving Federal Disability Data: The Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Office of Management and Budget, and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research are co-chairing a Disability Data Interagency Working Group (DDIWG), tasked with the development and release of a Federal Evidence Agenda on Disability Equity, in order to improve the Federal government’s ability to make data-informed policy decisions. This working group recently published a Request for Information in the Federal Register seeking public input until July 15, 2024 and can be found here.
  • On March 28, 2024, OMB published a set of long-awaited updates to Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 (Directive No. 15): Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. Thanks to the hard work of staff across dozens of Federal agencies and input from thousands of members of the public, these updated standards will help create more useful, accurate, and up to date Federal data on race and ethnicity. They will enhance our ability to compare information and data across Federal agencies, and also to understand how well Federal programs serve a diverse America. You can read the updated Directive No. 15 on the Federal Register as well as on spd15revision.gov.
  • On March 11, 2024, OMB published Leveraging Federal Statistics to Strengthen Evidence-Based Decision-Making in the Analytical Perspectives volume. This report discusses efforts to advance toward a more seamless Federal statistical system with enhanced statistical capacity and infrastructure, and highlights recent accomplishments within the Federal statistical system. Accompanying the chapter is Statistical Officials Highlights and Achievements, a report on the achievements of Statistical Officials in 2023.
  • The Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) is hosting the 2024 FCSM Research and Policy Conference, to be held October 22-24, 2024 at the College Park Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Hyattsville, MD. Broad topics for the annual conference include applied statistics, Bayesian methods; data linkage; data science; estimation and inference; privacy and disclosure control; and survey sampling and weighting. Abstracts are due April 8. Submission instructions and more information about the conference can be found at https://fcsmconf.org/.
  • The Standard Application Process (SAP) portal completed its first year of full operation in December 2023! Visit the SAP website to read the SAP Governance Board’s 2023 Annual Report and learn about the accomplishments of Year 1, the planned improvements for 2024, and the long-term goals for the SAP. While there, make sure you sign-up for email updates, which now include official SAP Newsletters.
  • On February 15, 2024, OMB published a revision to OMB Statistical Policy Directive No. 3. This revision finalizes a proposal from August 2023 and will allow Executive Branch employees to comment publicly on Principal Federal Economic Indicator data thirty minutes after the official data release time, replacing the prior policy’s wait of one hour.
  • On February 2, 2024, OMB published the Fiscal Years 2021/2022 Statistical Programs of the U.S. Government report to the Congress outlining the budgets supporting Federal statistical activities. This report fulfills the responsibility of OMB to prepare a report on statistical program funding under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This report provides the Congress with a consolidated source for key budget and program information about the Federal Statistical System.