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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-14 | Federal Student Aid Partner Connect Records System | ED is consolidating some of its record systems - and associate web portals - into a unified digital front-end platform for entities participating in or involved in the administration of financial aid programs for postsecondary students authorized under title IV of the Higher Education Act. Because of that consolidation, ED is discontinuing use of two other records systems - the Student Aid Internet Gateway (SAIG) and the Postsecondary Education Participants System (PEPS). The notice also adds new users and routine uses, which include disclosure to states and law enforcement agencies for the purpose of identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments; and disclosure to DOJ for advice on any matter. | Education | New | ED | N/A |
| 2025-08-15 | National Youth Tobacco Survey | The NYTS provides national estimates of tobacco use behaviors, information about exposure to pro- and anti-tobacco influences, and information about racial and ethnic disparities in tobacco-related topics is the most comprehensive source of nationally representative tobacco data among students in grades 9-12, and is the only source of data for students in grades 6-8. | Health and Safety | Revision | CDC | Individuals |
| 2025-08-15 | National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program | The NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program was started in 2011 to develop and nurture a national innovation ecosystem built upon fundamental research that guides the output of scientific and engineering discoveries closer to the development of technologies, products, and services that benefit society. This clearance would allow the NSF I-Corps program to collect characteristics, inputs, outputs, and outcomes information from the I-Corps teams funded by the program. This collection will enable the evaluation of the impacts on program themes of Training an Entrepreneurial Workforce, Translating Technologies, Nurturing an Innovation Ecosystem, and Enabling Economic Impact. | Science and Technology | Revision | NSF | Grantees |
| 2025-08-15 | Regional Economic Development Data Collection Instrument | This listing authorizes a one-time questionnaire that will be sent to EDA Tech Hubs consortium leads to gather data and stories to inform regional impact evaluations, resources, and tools for regional economic development decision-makers. | Economic Development | New | DOC/EDA | Grantees |
| 2025-08-15 | Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program Performance Analysis Study | The SRAE PAS collects information on program structure, cost, and support for implementation; program attendance, reach, and dosage; the characteristics of youth involved in programming; youth sexual and other risky behavior prior to program participation; and youth sexual and other risky behavior intentions at program exit. In addition to removing questions about gender identity from these studies, ACS is proposing revisions to the current performance measures to address feedback from grant recipients to simplify and clarify participant surveys, and to ensure the measures meet FYSB data needs. | Sex Education | Revision | HHS/ACF | Grantees |
| 2025-08-15 | National Vital Statistics Report Form | This form collects data on births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and divorces reported in the National Vital Statistics System. It's unclear from the listing whether any changes are being made to the collection. | Data Collection | Renewal | CDC | States |
| 2025-08-15 | Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services Activity and Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services Outcomes Reports | The Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) program identifies and ranks unemployment insurance (UI) claimants by their potential for exhausting UI benefits before returning to work and refers these claimants to appropriate reemployment services. The ETA 9048 report describes the number of claimants at various points in the WPRS system from initial profiling through the completion of specific reemployment services. The ETA 9049 report describes the reemployment experience of profiled claimants selected for referral to services by examining the state's existing wage record files to capture which quarter the individuals who received reemployment services became employed, the amount of wages they earned, and whether the individuals receiving services changed industries. | Labor/Employment | Extension | DOL | Workforce Agencies |
| 2025-08-15 | Annual Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad | This survey obtains sample data on the financial structure and operations of U.S. parents and their foreign affiliates. This notice announces BEA's intention to discontinue collection of minority-owned foreign affiliates. | Trade | Revision | BEA | Businesses |
| 2025-08-15 | Standard Application Process Common Form | The Evidence Act required OMB to establish a Standard Application Process (SAP) for requesting access to certain confidential data assets. The SAP Portal is an online interface connecting applicants seeking data with a catalog of data assets owned by the federal statistical agencies and units as well as an application to apply for those assets. The SAP Portal is not a data repository or warehouse; confidential data assets continue to be stored in secure data access facilities owned and hosted by the federal statistical agencies and units. This form is used by researchers and other data users to apply to access confidential data assets held by 15 federal statistical agencies or units for the purposes of developing evidence. | Data Collection | Extension | NSF | Researchers, States |
| 2025-08-18 | Internet Use Survey | The Internet Use Survey, a supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS), asks roughly 60 questions about whether and how Americans use the Internet. The listing indicates that the survey is being revised, but it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Science and Technology | Revision | DOC/NTIA | Individuals and households |
| 2025-08-18 | SSA Matching Program | Under this program, OPM will share civil service benefit and payment data with SSA. SSA will use that data to calculate civil service benefit offset obligations. SSA is legally required to offset Disability Insurance benefits under the Old-Age, Survivors, Disability Insurance (OASDI) program, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and Special Veterans' Benefits (SVB), by a percentage of the benefit recipients' Federal Government retirement or disability benefits. | Disability | New | SSA | N/A |
| 2025-08-18 | Agricultural Resource Management Phases 3 Economic Surveys | The ARMS are the primary source of information for the USDA on a broad range of issues related to agricultural resource use, cost of production, and farm sector financial conditions. USDA is proposing to update its questions on race and ethnicity to comply with new SPD15 standards but is requesting an exception from OMB to use the minimal category version that does not include examples for each of the seven main race/ethnicity categories. According to their supporting statement, "Additional questions on detailed race/ethnicity would require more time and effort from respondents, many of whom may already face time constraints." | Agriculture | Revision | USDA | Farms |
| 2025-08-18 | BLS Wage Records Data Application | This new form will allow states participating in the BLS Unemployment Insurance Wage Records Data Sharing Program to request data from other participating states for statistical research. | Labor/Employment | New | DOL/BLS | States |
| 2025-08-19 | Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership (HFPP): Data Sharing and Information Exchange | The Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership (HFPP) is a voluntary, public-private partnership between the federal government, state and local Medicaid agencies, law enforcement, private health insurance plans, and healthcare anti-fraud associations to identify and reduce fraud, waste, and abuse across the healthcare sector. Although the listing indicates that changes are being made to the HFPP forms, it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Healthcare | Revision | HHS/CMS | Businesses |
| 2025-08-19 | U.S. Elections Survey - Election Office Staffing | This survey will collect information on election office staff composition, hiring capabilities, and perceived staffing needs. The EAC is fielding this survey to meet its obligations under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) to serve as a national clearinghouse and resource for the compilation of information with respect to the administration of Federal elections. Section 241 of HAVA gives the EAC authority to periodically conduct studies on election administration issues. | Democracy | New | EAC | States |
| 2025-08-25 | Application for Veterans Pension | The Application for Pension is the prescribed form for veterans applying for pension benefits. The notice indicates that the form is being revised, but it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Veterans | Revision | VA | Individuals |
| 2025-08-25 | CAHPS Enrollee Survey | CAHPS surveys ask consumers and patients to report on and evaluate their experiences with health care. These surveys cover topics that are important to consumers and focus on aspects of quality that consumers are best qualified to assess, such as the communication skills of providers and ease of access to health care services. The notice indicates that the surveys are being changed, but it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Healthcare | Revision | OPM | Individuals |
| 2025-08-25 | Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project (STEW-MAP) | The purpose of this research is to gather information on civic stewardship groups and their efforts such as where they work, the types of projects they focus on, and how they are organized. This information will be summarized and, for the groups agreeing to be represented on a public map, made publicly available online for use by decision-makers, land managers, environmental professionals, the general public, the stewards themselves, and other natural resource management stakeholders. | Climate/Environment | New | USDA | Non-profits and SLTT governments |
| 2025-08-26 | Current Population Survey (CPS) Basic Demographic Items | This portion of the CPS - which produces federal statistics on employment and unemployment - collects demographic data on topics like age, marital status, sex, Armed Forces status, education, race, origin, and family income. This year, BLS is conducting an experimental collection of Race and Ethnicity information using the new SPD15 standard. The main goal of the study is to assess the effect of the new race and ethnicity standard on estimates obtained from the CPS. The study will also aid in the implementation of the new standard for interviewer-administered data collections (both in-person and by phone). The study will examine the impact of differences in reporting using the new 2024 standard and the 1997 standard (which CPS currently is using) on race distributions, labor force estimates, weighting, and missing data. | Racial Justice | Revision | DOL | Individuals and households |
| 2025-09-02 | Recission of Final Rule: Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States | DOL is proposing to rescind provisions of regulations that provide protections for temporary foreign (H-2A visa) agricultural workers. The provisions DOL is proposing to rescind enhanced information collection requirements that would allow DOL to gain a more accurate and detailed understanding of the scope and structure of the employer's agricultural operation and thereby assist the Department in program administration and enforcement, including in determinations of whether an employer has demonstrated a bona fide temporary or seasonal need, or, conversely, whether an employer has, through multiple related entities, sought to obtain year-round H-2A labor. In support of the recission, DOL suggests that the information collection requirement "presents legal risks and places extensive burdens on filers while providing limited utility in the stated goals, such as single employer test determinations." | Immigration | N/A | DOL | N/A |