The Census Bureau (Bureau) is removing its regulations related to the release of decennial census population information. Such regulations are obsolete and have not applied to the determination of met...

@uscensusbureau (Bureau) is removing its regulations related to the release of decennial census population information. Such regulations are obsolete and have not applied to the determination of methodology for calculating the tabulations of total population reported to states and localities under 13 U.S.C. 141(c) since the decennial census in 2000. This action is necessary to remove obsolete regulatory language, keep the Bureau's regulations current, and ensure that the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) is able to fulfill his statutory obligations without being hindered by an unnecessary administrative process.

By this rule, @uscensusbureau is eliminating its regulations pertaining to a now-obsolete joint effort between the United States Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to train foreign nationals in census and statistical procedures. This action is necessary to ensure that @uscensusbureau's regulations are accurate and up-to-date. The intended effect is to remove outdated and unnecessary regulatory content, to reduce the potential for confusion, and to reprioritize American interests.

By this rule, @uscensusbureau (Bureau) amends and removes certain regulations governing the program for challenging the Bureau's annual population estimates (Population Estimates Challenge Program). This action will improve and streamline the regulations by clarifying that part 90 pertains to requests to challenge the Bureau's annual population estimates, properly introducing an acronym used throughout part 90, eliminating inconsequential language, and amending or removing provisions that impose undue restrictions or requirements on potential challengers. The intended effect is to create a more efficient, clear, and accessible process for governmental units to request a challenge to the Bureau's population estimates, thereby promoting accuracy and accountability.

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JANUARY 2026   Letter from the Director Dear colleagues, It has been an autumn of challenges and changes into our population sciences world, and I am grateful for having had the chance to think through our collective goals and responses to uncertainty. I have been so proud to work alongside committed people continuing to ask critical questions about topics that have come into the public spotlight. These include the debates about fertility, family formation, reproductive health, migration, extreme weather, health insurance, disability, socioeconomic inequality and more, providing rigorous evidence for efforts to preserve and improve opportunity and well being. We will hear more about these research projects and programs at our Brown Bag series and in our monthly Coffee Chats, but also in two Research Incubation Group meetings in February. In those meetings, we’ll aim to build new research connections and think about ways to continue our data collection and analysis of urgent issues and current conditions. We’ll also be piloting some PSC-centric training for population science mentors in March - keep an eye on the calendar for these special events. I can’t wait to dig in with you in the new year, and hear about how I can enable your energy, creativity, and collaboration. Please be in touch! Sarah Burgard, PSC Director Welcome to PSC! We are delighted to welcome new faculty to PSC: Nafeesa Andrabi, Alexander Adames, Edward Fox, Seoyoun Kim, Cindy Buckley, Kara Zivin, and HwaJung Choi. PSC is now home to a team of RAs who’ve joined our staff to work with Amanda Kowalski: Neil Christy, Avi Goldberg, Darion Phan, Griffin Shufeldt, Alayna Tisch, Lai Wei, Shuheng Zhang, and Ryan Fraser. (Pictured above: Nafeesa Andrabi and Alexander Adames with Joe LaBriola and Hannah Tessler at September’s PSC Welcome Picnic) Going to PAA? The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be May 6-9 in St. Louis. * Book your room early! * Thanks to our 12 volunteers for reviewing posters for PAA: Jess Dozier, Janet Wang, Soohyeon Ko, David Yang, Wesley Correll-King, Kyungeun Song, Catalina Anampa Castro, Zoey Wang, Cayley Ryan-Claytor, Junchao Tang, Hannah Tessler and Shane Burns! * Slide deck and poster templates in Google and Canva are available for optional use * Read about 5 Things to Do in St. Louis in our Q&A with PSC staffer and St. Louian Bob Kaikati NIMLAS Plenary and CFP The Network for Innovative Methods in Longitudinal Aging Studies (NIMLAS) is open for pilot project applications, with pre-propsals due Jan. 9, 2026! The NIMLAS 4th annual plenary will be Feb. 26. Led by Brady T. West, Sunghee Lee, and Esther Friedman, NIMLAS is a network of experts shaping methodological innovations for longitudinal studies and the measurement of aging populations. PSC News and Updates Chitwan Valley Family Study 30th Anniversary New Insights on Historic Causes of Maternal Deaths Births down, wages up: U-M study links historic birth rate drop to closing gender pay gap DMACS marks 10 years of listening to Detroiters for shared impact Below: Julie Maslowsky’s kids (last year) representing in their PSC Tees

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HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) is pleased to announce that CHAS (Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy) data, are now available via an application programming interface (API). With this API, developers can easily access and customize CHAS data for use in existing applications or to create new applications. To create an account and get an access token, please visit the API page here: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/dataset/chas-api.html. News There are no substantive changes to the format/content of the tables from the 2021 CHAS release. Enhanced disclosure avoidance protections continue to be enforced by Census resulting in some previously-available estimates being suppressed, as was the case starting with the 2018 tables. The following tables have changed compared to pre-2018 releases: Table 1: The "Other (including multiple races, non-Hispanic)" race/ethnicity category is now suppressed. The "Cost burden cannot be computed, none of the above problems" housing unit problems category is now combined with the "Has none of the 4 housing problems" category. Table 2: The "Other (including multiple races, non-Hispanic)" race/ethnicity category is now suppressed. The "Cost burden cannot be computed, none of the above problems" severe housing unit problems category is now combined with the "Has none of the 4 severe housing problems" category. Table 7: The "Cost burden cannot be computed, none of the above problems" category is now suppressed. Table 12: The "Cost burden cannot be computed, none of the above problems" category is now suppressed. Please use caution when referencing estimates using programming code developed for pre-2018 versions of CHAS or when making year-to-year comparisons, as variable names and definitions may have changed. About the CHAS Each year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) receives custom tabulations of American Community Survey (ACS) data from the U.S. Census Bureau. These data, known as the "CHAS" data (Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy), demonstrate the extent of housing problems and housing needs, particularly for low income households. The CHAS data are used by local governments to plan how to spend HUD funds, and may also be used by HUD to distribute grant funds. For more background on the CHAS data, including data documentation and a list of updates and corrections to previously released data, click here: Background. Access the data HUD has created a simple web-based table generator (also known as a query tool) that provides some of the most commonly used CHAS figures (click here for the CHAS query tool). Data users who are comfortable working with large datasets and have appropriate data management software (such as SAS or SPSS) can download the complete set of data files (click here for the data download page). The data download tool includes data from every ACS release from 2006-2008 through 2018-2022, for a variety of geographic summary levels. HUD has also created new analytical tools to support HUD grantees preparing their Consolidated Plans. The eCon Planning Suite and CPD Maps are pre-loaded with CHAS data. Access to the eCon Planning Suite is limited to CPD grantees, but CPD Maps is available to the general public. Older versions of CHAS data, from the 2000 Census and the 2005-2007 ACS, are available below. These data are different from more recent versions, and are not in the data download tool. CHAS 2000 CHAS 2005-2007 Analysis HUD will periodically post publications, presentations, and working papers using CHAS data. Joice, Paul. CHAS Affordability Analysis. US Department of Housing and Urban Development, working paper. May 20, 2013. Joice, Paul. Measuring Housing Affordability. Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 16(1). 2014.

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