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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-07 | Consumer Price Index Housing Survey | The collection of price data from rental units is essential for the timely and accurate calculation of the shelter component of the CPI. The CPI is then widely used as a measure of inflation, indicator of the effectiveness of government economic policy, deflator for other economic series and as a means of adjusting dollar values. | Housing | Renewal | DOL | Individuals or households |
| 2025-04-07 | 2026-2027 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) | FAFSA is used to to collect and process the data necessary to determine a student's eligibility to receive Title IV, HEA program assistance. Although not included in the notice, this renewal will change the gender field on the form to permit only Male and Female responses. Unclear what other changes are being made. | Education | Revision | ED | Individuals or households |
| 2025-04-04 | Current Mandatory Business Surveys | Notice of determination that Census will conduct the following current four mandatory business surveys in 2025: Annual Integrated Economic Survey; Annual Business Survey; Business and Professional Classification Report; and Business Enterprise Research and Development Survey. | Trade | Extension | Census | Businesses |
| 2025-04-04 | National Mail Voter Registration Form | This form is for U.S. citizens that want to register to vote, to update registration information due to a change of name, make a change of address or to register with a political party by returning the form to their state election office. | Voting Rights | Renewal | EAC | Eligible voters |
| 2025-03-31 | Number of Law Enforcement Employees | This collection requests demographics associated with the number of full and part-time law enforcement employees, both officers and civilians, from federal, state, county, city, university/college, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies in order for the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program to serve as the national clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of police employee data and to publish these statistics in Crime in the Nation and on the Crime Data Explorer. | Criminal Justice | Renewal | DOJ | Law enforcement agencies |
| 2025-03-31 | Local Food Marketing Practice Survey | This survey will collect data to measure changes and growth within the local food industry on a national basis. | Agriculture | Reinstate | NASS | Farmers and Ranchers |
| 2025-03-31 | Organic Survey | Survey of all certified organic operations, asking questions about production data (acres planted, acres harvested, quantity harvested, quantity sold, livestock produced and sold, value of sale, etc.), and marketing and production practices. | Agriculture | Renewal | NASS | Farmers and Ranchers |
| 2025-03-29 | Pulse Survey: High-Frequency Surveys Program/Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey | Lays out survey changes for the March, April, and May surveys, including testing questions for SIPP and comparing HiTOPS data against national benchmarks. Note that the May topical also pilots a short series seeking to measure reasons for migration to be used in other surveys. | Data Collection | Renewal | Census | Individuals and households |
| 2025-03-24 | Grantee Reporting Requirements for Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) | PREMs will be required to submit annual reports on progress and plans, which will be used as a basis for performance review and determining the level of continued funding. Each PREM's annual report will include the following categories of activities: (1) research, (2) education (3) outreach, (4) partnerships, (5) pathway for enhancing broadening participation, (6) management, and (7) budget reports. | Science and Technology | New | NSF | Non-profit institutions |
| 2025-03-24 | Overseas Vetting Questionnaire | The information solicited on this form will be used to conduct background investigations, reinvestigations, and continuous vetting of persons for eligibility for logical access, physical access, credentialing, and fitness to perform work overseas for or on behalf of the U.S. Government as Locally Employed (LE) Staff and locally-hired third party contractors employed overseas at a U.S. Mission. | International | New | State | Individuals subject to Department of State background investigations, reinvestigations, and continuous vetting |
| 2025-03-21 | Current Population Survey (CPS) 2025 Field Test | 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 a viable response method, the goal is to experiment with timing and contacts in order to refine procedures that best fit the needs of CPS. This is the first of two major field tests with the second in 2026, and an ultimate goal to phase in changes to the survey in 2027. | Economic Justice | New | Census | Households |
| 2025-03-20 | 2024 LNG Export Study | The purpose of this study is to provide an update to DOE's prior analyses and understanding of how varying levels of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports impact and inform DOE's statutory public interest determination. NOTE: Comment period was extended in this notice: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-02238. | Climate/Environment | New | DOE | N/A |
| 2025-03-20 | Application for a U.S. Passport for Eligible Individuals: Correction, Name Change to Passport Issued 1 Year Ago or Less, and Limited Passport Replacement | Replaces "gender" with "sex" and requires applicants to provide their sex assigned at birth and to respond with only "male" or "female." Previously, applicants could select an "X" gender marker. | LGBTQI+ | Form | State | Individuals |
| 2025-03-20 | U.S. Passport Renewal Application for Eligible Individuals | Replaces "gender" with "sex" and requires applicants to provide their sex assigned at birth and to respond with only "male" or "female." Previously, applicants could select an "X" gender marker. | LGBTQI+ | Form | State | Individuals |
| 2025-03-17 | Application for a US Passport | Replaces "gender" with "sex" and requires applicants to provide their sex assigned at birth and to respond with only "male" or "female." Previously, applicants could select an "X" gender marker. | LGBTQI+ | Revision | State | Individuals |
| 2025-03-06 | National Study of Interpersonal Violence Experienced by Young Adults | This proposed study would be a nationally representative, longitudinal panel survey of interpersonal violence among young adults (ages 18-24) who do and do not attend college. It will examine trajectories of risk and protective factors (at the individual, family, and community levels, including exposure to community violence) that predict victimization and perpetration of interpersonal violence and the recovery of those victimized. | Criminal Justice | New | DOJ | Young adults |
| 2025-03-03 | Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories | This survey collects data on the staffing, budgets, workloads, resources, policies, and procedures among federal, state, and local crime labs. Unclear what revisions are being made. | Criminal Justice | Revision | DOJ | Individual labs and multi-lab systems |
| 2025-03-03 | Application for Suspension of Deportation | This form collects demographic and narrative information to support an applicant's suspension of deportation. In addition to several non-substantive changes, EOIR is making making several substantive changes that it deems "minor," including removing the word “alien” from the document, and replacing it with the word “noncitizen”; clarifying the description of the dimension of an applicant's facial image for passport photographs; modifying the sentence explaining the purpose and instructions of this form; changing the word “home” phone number to “cell” phone number; and including a privacy act statement. | Immigration | Revision | DOJ | Individuals and families at risk of deportation |
| 2025-02-27 | Survey of Healthcare Experiences of Patients—Dental Care Patient Satisfaction Survey (DPSS) | The overall purpose of the Dental Care Patient Satisfaction Survey (DPSS) is to systematically obtain information from patients, which can be used to identify problems or complaints that need attention and to improve the quality of dental health care services. | Veterans | Revision | VA | Individuals or households |
| 2025-02-20 | Child Support Annual Data Report and Instructions | States must annually provide OCSS with their child support information pertaining to case inventory, performance status, and accomplishments in the following areas: paternity establishment; services requested and provided; medical support; collections due and distributed; staff; program expenditures; non-cooperation and good cause; and administrative enforcement. | Adoption/Families | N/A | HHS | States |