Take Action!
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-13 | 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 |
| 2025-06-13 | 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 |
| 2025-06-12 | 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 |
| 2025-06-10 | Notice of Termination of 14 Discretionary Federal Advisory Committees | This notice formally terminates 14 DOC Advisory Committees, including the BEA Advisory Committee; Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC), 2030 Census Advisory Committee; Census Scientific Advisory Committee (CSAC); and Census's National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations (NAC). | Data Collection | N/A | DOC | N/A |
| 2025-06-09 | Income Driven Repayment Plan Request | The Department is updating the IDR Request Form that is used by a borrower to enroll, recertify, or change their IDR plan to support the provisions identified by a court injunction issued February 18, 2025. Specifically, the form is being updated to remove the SAVE plan as an option for borrowers to select and remove the other early-implemented components of the Final Rule that apply to the other IDR plans ( i.e., revert the definition of family size to the pre- July 1, 2024, definition for all IDR plans and remove references to interest subsidy during repayment), additional updates to improve clarity and the borrower experience as a result of these changes have also been made. | Education | Revision | ED | Individuals or households |
| 2025-06-09 | National Use of Force Data Collection | To provide a better understanding of the incidents of use of force by law enforcement, the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program developed a data collection for law enforcement agencies to provide information on incidents where the use of force by a law enforcement officer led to the death or serious bodily injury of a person, as well as when a law enforcement officer discharged a firearm at or in the direction of a person. When a use of force incident occurs, federal, state, county, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies provide information to the data collection on characteristics of the incident, the victim(s) on which force was used by law enforcement, and the officers who applied force in the incident. | Criminal Justice | Extension | DOJ | SLT governments |
| 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 |
| 2025-06-07 | American Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) | The listing indicates that changes to the surveys are being made but what changes are happening is unclear. According to the listing, Census "requests authorization from the OMB for revisions to the ACS. The ACS is one of the Department of Commerce's most valuable data products, used extensively by businesses, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), local governments, and many federal agencies." | Data Collection | Revision | Census | Individuals or households |
| 2025-06-05 | Current Population Survey-Child Support Supplement | The CPS Child Support Supplement collects detailed information about child support agreements and awards, including both required payments and amounts received, as well as data about the socioeconomic characteristics of custodial parents and their families. Analysis of the information provides a nationwide assessment of the need for and effectiveness of the child support program, which helps OCSE align the child support program to meet the needs of the families it serves. The survey analysis will also help legislators make child support policy decisions. OCSE revised the survey to delete questions and update language. | Adoption/Families | Revision | HHS | Individuals and households |
| 2025-06-05 | Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program Evaluation | This collection is a core component of a larger comprehensive evaluation strategy to assess the effectiveness and functioning of the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, funded through grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). LSAMP alliances are institutions of higher education (IHEs) that support the preparation of students at the undergraduate and postbaccalaureate levels in science, technology, engineering and technology (STEM) disciplines. | Higher Ed | New | NSF | Faculty, staff, and students |
| 2025-06-04 | ATF's Citizens' Academy Application | In addition to a revision of the respondent burden, ATF is replacing the word “gender” with the word “sex” and (2) removing the word “non-binary” and its accompanying check box. | Criminal Justice | Revision | DOJ | Individuals or households |
| 2025-06-02 | National Survey of the Use of Booster Seats | The 2025 Field Test's goal is to test the use of an internet self-response method to measure its success as a possible method of contact and interviewing with the goal of review accuracy, reporting, and representativeness. In addition, should it prove as | Health and Safety | Renewal | DOT | N/A |
| 2025-06-02 | National Use of Force Data Collection | This collection is used by law enforcement agencies to provide information on incidents where the use of force by a law enforcement officer led to the death or serious bodily injury of a person, as well as when a law enforcement officer discharged a firearm at or in the direction of a person. When a use of force incident occurs, law enforcement agencies provide information to the data collection on characteristics of the incident, the victim(s) on which force was used by law enforcement, and the officers who applied force in the incident. | Criminal Justice | Extension | DOJ | Governments |
| 2025-05-30 | NSF GRANTED Program Interviews | As a first step, the study will conduct a literature review to analyze the types of research support and services provided at U.S. higher education institutions. Second, the study will provide a road map for a formative program evaluation, along with a feasibility memo of what data can be used for the evaluation. | Education | New | NSF | N/A |
| 2025-05-30 | EEO Initial Informal Complaint Contact Sheet Common Form | This information is being collected for the purpose of processing informal complaints of employment discrimination against the agency on the bases of race, religion, color, sex, pregnant/pregnant workers (limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), national origin, age (40 or older), genetic information (including family medical history), disability (mental or physical) or retaliation/reprisal. Note that the form does not include a place to report discrimination on the basis of sexual orientiation or gender identity and restricts sex discrimination complaints to male or female. | Non-Discrimination | Revision | Census | Individuals |
| 2025-05-29 | CCDF Quarterly Case-Level Report | OCC proposes changes to the reporting requirements to combine race and ethnicity into a single category. OCC had previously proposed additional changes but has dropped those proposals to be responsive to public comment and limit administrative burden. | Child Welfare | Revision | ACF | SLT governments |
| 2025-05-27 | American Time Use Survey | The ATUS is the Nation's first federally administered, continuous survey on time use in the United States. It measures, for example, time spent providing childcare and eldercare, working, doing household chores, and spent in leisure activities. In the United States, several existing Federal surveys collect income and wage data for individuals and families, and analysts often use such measures of material prosperity as proxies for quality of life. Time-use data substantially augment these quality-of-life measures. The data also can be used in conjunction with wage data to evaluate the contribution of non-market work to national economies. | Economic Justice | Renewal | BLS | Individuals or households |
| 2025-05-23 | Electronic Applications for the Attorney General's Honors Program and the Summer Law Intern Program (HP/SLIP) | This form is used to apply for DOJ's Honors and Summer Intern programs. It is being revised to remove references to sexual orientation and gender identity. | LGBTQI+ | Revision | DOJ | Individuals |
| 2025-05-22 | National Household Survey on Disaster Preparedness | The Individual and Community Preparedness Division analyzes and uses data collected in the two versions of the National Household Survey on Disaster Preparedness to identify progress and gaps in individual and community preparedness and to better understand the motivational factors and barriers to preparedness that people face. The survey measures the public's knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors relative to preparing for disasters. | Emergency Management | Reinstate | FEMA | Individuals and households |