{"id":36426,"date":"2025-11-09T14:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/dearly-departed-datasets-federal-datasets-that-we-have-lost-are-losing-or-have-had-recent-alterations-americas-essential-data\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T14:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:27:04","slug":"dearly-departed-datasets-federal-datasets-that-we-have-lost-are-losing-or-have-had-recent-alterations-americas-essential-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/dearly-departed-datasets-federal-datasets-that-we-have-lost-are-losing-or-have-had-recent-alterations-americas-essential-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Dearly Departed Datasets. Federal Datasets That We Have Lost, Are Losing, Or Have Had Recent Alterations. America’s Essential Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two web-sites are tracking deletions, changes, or reduced accessibility to Federal datasets.<\/p>\n

America’s Essential Data<\/a>
America’s Essential Data is a collaborative effort dedicated to documenting the value that data produced by the federal government provides for American lives and livelihoods. This effort supports federal agency implementation of the bipartisan Evidence Act of 2018, which requires that agencies prioritize data that deeply impact the public.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/fas.org\/publication\/deleted-federal-datasets\/<\/a><\/p>\n

They identified three types of data decedents. Examples are below, but visit the Dearly Departed Dataset Graveyard<\/a> at EssentialData.US<\/a> for a more complete tally and relevant links.<\/p>\n

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  1. Terminated datasets.<\/strong> These are data that used to be collected and published on a regular basis (for example, every year) and will no longer be collected. When an agency terminates a collection, historical data are usually still available on federal websites. This includes the well-publicized terminations of USDA\u2019s Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement<\/strong>, and EPA\u2019s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program<\/strong>, as well as the less-publicized demise of SAMHSA\u2019s Drug Abuse Warning Network<\/strong> (DAWN). Meanwhile, the Community Resilience Estimates Equity Supplement that identified neighborhoods most socially vulnerable to disasters has both been terminated and<\/em> pulled from the Census Bureau\u2019s website.<\/li>\n
  2. Removed variables.<\/strong> With some datasets, agencies have taken out specific data columns, generally to remove variables not aligned with Administration priorities. That includes Race\/Ethnicity<\/em> (OPM\u2019s Fedscope data on the federal workforce) and Gender Identity<\/em> (DOJ\u2019s National Crime Victimization Survey<\/strong>, the Bureau of Prison\u2019s Inmate Statistics<\/strong>, and many more datasets across agencies).<\/li>\n
  3. Discontinued tools.<\/strong> Digital tools can help a broader audience of Americans make use of federal datasets. Departed tools include EPA\u2019s Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping tool<\/strong> \u2013 known to friends as \u201cEJ Screen\u201d \u2013 which shined a light on communities overburdened by environmental harms, and also Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Open<\/strong>, a digital go-bag of ~300 critical infrastructure datasets from across federal agencies relied on by emergency managers around the country.<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n

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