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Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that decision. DataWatch — Take Action! highlights surveys or forms the government is changing, renewing, or introducing. If you want to tell the government what you think about the changes they are making, follow these steps:
- Click on the name of the survey or form. The link will bring you to a listing in the "Federal Register" — a daily newsletter filled with the government's regulations, surveys, forms, public meetings, and other actions.
- Skim the listing to find instructions on how to submit a comment. For most listings, this information will be found in a section titled "Addresses."
- Write in to tell the government what you think! Most listings allow you to either:
- Send an email to the point of contact for that survey or form, or
- Send your thoughts to the agency or the White House through the reginfo.gov website.
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| Due Date | Collection | Summary | Main Issues | New/Renew | Agency | Respondents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-23 | Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records | FLRA is making a series of changes to its Office of Inspector General Investigative Files SORN by adding two categories of individuals covered by the system, modifying four existing routine uses, rescinding one existing routine use, adding eight new routine uses, adding clarity and specificity to descriptions of the system, and making technical changes and corrections. Generally, these changes seem to make it easier to retrieve and share records with other agencies. | Privacy | Revision | FLRA | N/A |
| 2025-06-23 | Pre-Test for the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 2027 | This Pretest will enable BLS to examine how the survey systems, protocols, and procedures perform with the target population, so that any needed adjustments can be made prior to Round 1. The Pretest will also include some experiments to test survey procedures, the results of which will enable BLS to maximize efficiency and minimize respondent burden in NLSY27 screening and Round 1 data collection. | Labor/Employment | New | DOL | Individuals or households |
| 2025-06-22 | Current Population Survey, School Enrollment Supplement | This supplement is the only annual source of data on public/private elementary and secondary school enrollment, as well as the characteristics of private school students and their families. As part of the Federal Government's efforts to collect data and provide timely information to government entities for policymaking decisions, this supplement provides national trends in enrollment and progress in school. | Education | Renewal | Census | Individuals or households |
| 2025-06-20 | Fiscal Responsibility Act TANF Pilot Program 2025 Information Collection | The FRA authorized a new opportunity for states to pilot program performance and accountability measures in TANF. Under the pilot, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may select up to five state TANF grantees to negotiate performance benchmarks for work and family stability outcomes instead of adhering to the standard TANF Work Participation Rate. In November 2024, ACF announced the selection of five states to participate in the FRA TANF Pilot Program. In March 2025, the Trump Administration announced a new direction for the FRA TANF Pilot Program, ending pilot participation for the states selected in November of 2024 and communicating plans to issue a new request for pilot proposals aligned with the Administration's focus on promoting work and reducing dependency and the key measures of success related to those priorities. | Federal Benefits | New | HHS | SLT governments |
| 2025-06-20 | EDFacts Data Collection | EDFacts collects information on behalf of ED grant and program offices for approximately 170 data groups for all 50 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, and seven outlying areas and freely associated states. By centralizing data provided by state education agencies about state level data, local education agencies, and schools, NCES and other components of ED use the EDFacts data to report on students, schools, staff, services, and education outcomes at the state, district, and school levels. The change memo associated with this collection indicates that ED is deleting two metadata questions regarding gender and gender identity. | LGBTQI+ | Revision | ED | Schools |
| 2025-06-20 | Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records | SBA is modifying its Personnel Security Files SORN to include new and expanded routine uses for responding to security breaches. | Privacy | Revision | SBA | N/A |
| 2025-06-18 | Medical Expenditure Panel Survey—Insurance Component (MEPS-IC) | The MEPS-IC measures the extent, cost, and coverage of employer-sponsored health insurance on an annual basis. | Healthcare | Renewal | HHS | Businesses |
| 2025-06-18 | AHRQ Safety Program for Healthcare Associated Infection Prevention | The AHRQ Safety Program for HAI Prevention will assess what components of the updated Toolkits are routinely used and helpful and what components need additional updating and refinement. Current AHRQ HAI Prevention Toolkits provide a wealth of valuable information but also require revision to incorporate new evidence-based practices and remove those no longer supported by scientific evidence. Revised Toolkits based on lessons learned from the implementation of this program will enhance their utility to healthcare workers and support the adoption of the AHRQ Safety Program for HAI Prevention practices. | Healthcare | New | HHS | Hospitals and hospital workers |
| 2025-06-18 | Protocol for the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse: Methods and Standards, Version 2.0 | Pathways to Work seeks to be a comprehensive resource that a range of audiences, including State and local Temporary Assistance for Needy Families administrators, can use to identify the services that will best help people with low incomes succeed in the labor market. Pathways to Work carries out a systematic process to identify, review, and rate the quality of eligible studies of programs and policies that have the primary aim of improving the employment and earnings of people with low incomes. The process is implemented by trained reviewers using consistent and transparent standards and procedures. The draft Protocol Version 2.0 aims to revise existing standards and to add new standards for including and rating the quality of program cost studies. | Labor/Employment | New | HHS | N/A |
| 2025-06-17 | Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses | This survey measures the overall rate of occurrence of work injuries and illnesses by industry for private industry, state governments, and local governments. For more serious injuries and illnesses with days away from work or with days of job transfer or restriction, the survey provides detailed information on the injured/ill worker (age, sex, race, industry, occupation, and length of service), the time in shift, and the circumstances of the injuries and illnesses classified by standardized codes (nature of the injury/illness, part of body affected, primary and secondary sources of the injury/illness, and the event or exposure which produced the injury/illness). | Labor/Employment | Extension | DOL | Businesses |
| 2025-06-17 | National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses | This survey helps HHS in describing and analyzing the health care workforce and workforce-related issues, as well as to provide necessary information for decision-making regarding future directions in health professions and nursing programs in response to societal and professional needs. Changes to the survey include revised questionnaire content—there are modifications to the questionnaire which include removing items, modifying existing items, and adding new content for the 2026 NSSRN. Questionnaire relating to the coronavirus pandemic have been removed, as have redundant and unneeded open-ended response options. | Healthcare | Revision | Census | Indiividaulss |
| 2025-06-16 | Pathways to Partnerships Program Evaluation | These collections will support the evaluation of the 2023 Disability Innovation Fund (DIF), Pathways to Partnerships Innovative Model Demonstration Project. The purpose of the DIF is to support innovative activities aimed at increasing competitive integrated employment for children, youth, and other individuals with disabilities. The program aims to create systematic and seamless approaches to offering transition services to children with disabilities, ages 10-13 and youth with disabilities ages 14 to 24 through collaborations among State vocational rehabilitation agencies, State education agencies, local education agencies, Federally funded Centers for Independent Living, and other organizations offering services to this population. | Disability | New | ED | Individuals and households |
| 2025-06-16 | National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2026 | NAEP is a federally authorized survey of student achievement at grades 4, 8, and 12 in various subject areas, such as mathematics, reading, writing, science, U.S. history, civics, geography, economics, technology and engineering literacy (TEL), and the arts. ED will conduct several tests in the 2026 cycle. Note that the confidentiality protections have changed. The listing says "As of April 2025, NCES's assurances of confidentiality protections for NAEP 2026 have changed due to recent staffing changes at the Department of Education. NCES has removed the Foundations of Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018, Title III, Part B, Confidential Information Protection (“CIPSEA”) as a confidentiality assurance. However, confidentiality assurances under the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA) remain in effect.) | Education | Revision | ED | SLT governments |
| 2025-06-16 | Collection of Information Under the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974 | This DRF DFR amends existing provisions by amending regulations regarding the collection of information under the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974. Note that DFRs must be rescinded if adverse comments are received. | Climate/Environment | N/A | DOE | N/A |
| 2025-06-15 | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Rescission of Changes to Civil Rights Data Collection Methods | In December 2023, SNAP issued a rule that prohibited using visual observation as a data collection method for race and ethnicity. It also removed regulatory language that provides an example that State agencies might collect race and ethnicity data by observation (also referred to as “visual observation”) when participants do not voluntarily provide the information on the application form. FNS is proposing to rescind the rule and seek comment on that proposal. | Racial Justice | N/A | USDA | Individuals |
| 2025-06-13 | 2026-2027 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) | FSA uses the FAFSA to collect and process the data necessary to determine a student's eligibility to receive Title IV, HEA program assistance. It's unclear from the listing what revisions are being made to the documents. | Higher Ed | Revision | ED | Individuals |
| 2025-06-13 | Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) Demonstration Projects and Evaluation | In 2018, DOL and SSA launched a collaboration to develop and test promising stay-at-work/return-to-work (SAW/RTW) early intervention strategies and evaluate outcomes for individuals who are experiencing work disability. The RETAIN Demonstration Projects are modeled after promising programs currently operating in Washington State, including the Centers of Occupational Health and Education (COHE), the Early Return to Work (ERTW), and the Stay at Work programs. | Disability | Extension | DOL | Individuals or households |
| 2025-06-12 | 2026 Survey of Earned Doctorates | The Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) is part of NCSES' survey system that collects data on individuals in an effort to provide information on science and engineering education and careers in the United States. There has long been an effort to add SOGI to this survey; despite testing showing the question additions would work and be beneficial, NCSES is choosing not to add those questions to the survey. | Higher Ed | Extension | NSF | Individuals |
| 2025-06-12 | High Frequency Surveys Program/Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey | Household Pulse Survey content continues to serve as an experimental endeavor in cooperation with other federal agencies to produce near real-time data to understand the effects of current events, including health events, and other social or economic events facing the nation or a significant portion of the nation. The June content will focus on economic issues and events and the August issue will have health-focused content. | Data Collection | Revision | Census | Individuals or households |
| 2025-06-09 | Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records | HUD is modifying its SORN for the Ginnie Mae Master Subservicer System, making clarifications to several components of the system including the routine uses of the data. It's not clear from the listing whether this is likely to increase sharing of PII. | Housing | Revision | HUD | N/A |