Census Bureau Press Releases
planned Executive · Tier 2 · HTML index · Department of Commerce
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What this source is
The U.S. Census Bureau, within Commerce, is the principal federal statistical agency for population and the economy. Its press-release index announces data releases from its demographic and economic programs on a published schedule, typically one or more items per business day.
The U.S. Census Bureau, part of the Department of Commerce, is the principal federal statistical agency and publishes a press-release index announcing data releases from its demographic and economic programs on a regular schedule.
The U.S. Census Bureau is a federal statistical agency within the Department of Commerce responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating data on the nation's population, economy, housing, and businesses. The Bureau conducts a wide range of surveys and administrative data collection activities, from the decennial Census of Population and Housing to ongoing monthly surveys of employment, retail sales, manufacturing output, international trade, and many other economic indicators. Census data forms the statistical foundation for congressional redistricting, federal funding formulas, business planning, academic research, and public understanding of national demographic and economic conditions.
The Census Bureau's press-release index announces the timing and availability of major data releases produced by its programs. The index typically contains one or more announcements per business day, as the Bureau releases different datasets on a published schedule. Releases provide advance notice of when data will be publicly available, context about what the data measures, and information about how to access it. Announcements cover releases from economic surveys (employment data, retail sales, manufacturing), demographic programs (population estimates, housing statistics), business data (international trade, foreign investment), and specialized surveys. The Bureau uses its newsroom to coordinate the timing and public availability of its statistical products and to provide guidance on interpreting statistical releases.
In the digest, Census Bureau announcements represent the official schedule and availability of key national statistics. Readers encounter notice of when new economic and demographic data become public, what topics the data covers, and where to find it. These releases serve as official documentation of when statistical information is becoming available to the public, researchers, businesses, and policymakers. The announcements provide access to some of the most widely cited federal statistics on the nation's economy, population, and demographic characteristics.
Model-written orientation, generated 2026-08-04 by haiku, prompt version 1. It may draw on general knowledge of public institutions and is not official-record content.
Identity and registry record
- Registry id
census-newsroom- Agency / parent organization
- Department of Commerce
- Branch
- executive
- Type
- HTML index
- Status
- planned
- Tier
- 2
- URL (home)
- https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases.html (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2026-07-26
- Registry notes
- Probed 2026-07-26: index reachable (HTTP 200), no RSS/Atom feed found or autodiscovered — HTML index diffing required. Probed 2026-07-31 (from the operator machine, outside the server's daily budget): reachable, HTTP 200, robots allows, but no machine-readable feed is advertised — ingestion waits on an html-index adapter, not on the publisher. Phase 5, 2026-07-31: the html-index adapter now exists and was run against this source's captured index bytes. Against the 2026-07-31 capture it reads listing has 91 article link(s); 0 dated inside the 7-day lookback, 0 dated outside it, 91 skipped for no readable date — the served HTML states no per-entry publication date, so every entry is skipped rather than dated by observation. This is a script-rendered listing; opening it needs evidence of a dated channel, not a cadence decision.
How we ingest it
- Channel
- HTML index
- Method
- HTML index diff via AgencyClient (pending content evaluation)
- Request budget
- the agency class: at most 3,000 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)
- Politeness
- robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded
- Capture and hash
- captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)
Ingestion health
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned.
Ingestion statistics
These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned. Ingestion statistics are measured for sources the pipeline reads.
All time
No requests to www.census.gov are recorded in the request log.
Last 30 days, day by day
No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.