America's Data Index
Monitoring America's federal data infrastructure from dataset availability and new releases to planned and unplanned changes to collections.
Take Action!
Every time the government makes a change to a survey or form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that decision.
We highlight surveys and forms the government is changing, renewing, or introducing so you can tell the government what you think about the changes they are making.
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Change Requests
For most data collected from the federal government, all changes, even minor ones, need to be reviewed and approved by the Office of Management and Budget. This information is published daily by OMB, but can be difficult to find and understand.
Our tracking aggregates and simplifies this information and provides links back to the source systems to allow deeper analysis. For a full history of change requests, visit our tracking page:
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Recent Status Changes
We monitor the availability of federal datasets and their documentation. Our tracking flags when data becomes unavailable, gets reposted, or fails to release as expected. Future updates will include checks for data quality changes and field modifications. For information on all tracked datasets, visit our
