What are Experimental Data Products?
What are Experimental Data Products?
Experimental data products are innovative statistical products created using new data sources or methodologies that benefit data users in the absence of other relevant products. We are seeking feedback from data users and stakeholders on the quality and usefulness of these new products.
The development of experimental data is one important path towards the creation of new, regularly occurring statistical products. When resources permit, experimental data products that meet our quality standards and demonstrate sufficient user demand may enter regular production and will be included on this page as Permanent Products.
Census Bureau experimental data may not meet all of our quality standards. Because of this, we clearly identify experimental data products and include methodology and supporting research with their release.
Experimental Data Products
-
Experimental Data ProductDispersion Statistics on Productivity (DiSP)September 30, 2025Statistics on within-industry dispersion in productivity for the manufacturing and retail sectors.
-
Experimental Data ProductCommodity Flow Survey Subarea EstimatesSeptember 26, 2025This product provides additional geographic granularity to existing Commodity Flow Survey Estimates.
-
Experimental Data ProductManufacturing Industrial Robotic Equipment: 2022August 21, 2025Data on the presence of robots, workers exposed to robots, capital expenditures for industrial robotic equipment, and plant size distributional statistics.
-
Experimental Data ProductGridded Environmental Impacts Frame (Gridded EIF)July 22, 2025A novel privacy-protected geospatial dataset derived from the Census Bureau’s confidential Environmental Impacts Frame (EIF) microdata infrastructure.
-
Experimental Data ProductNational Experimental Well-Being Statistics (NEWS)July 14, 2025The NEWS project aims to produce the best possible estimates of income and poverty given all available survey and administrative data.
-
Experimental Data ProductCannabis Excise Sales Tax CollectionsJune 12, 2025This experimental product provides quarterly data on cannabis excise sales tax collections.
-
Experimental Data ProductSelected Monthly State Tax CollectionsMay 08, 2025The Monthly State Tax Collections is the new monthly measure of state government tax collections for selected taxes.
-
Experimental Data ProductHousehold Pulse SurveyApril 30, 2025The Household Pulse Survey is designed to deploy quickly, and efficiently collect data on emergent social and economic matters facing U.S. households.
-
Experimental Data ProductBusiness Dynamics Statistics of Patenting Firms (BDS-PF)April 2025The BDS-PF provides annual measures of the business dynamics of firms that recently received a patent grant.
-
Experimental Data ProductBusiness Dynamics Statistics of Human Capital (BDS-HC)April 2025The BDS-HC provides annual measures of the workforce composition of firms and its relationship to business dynamics.
-
Experimental Data ProductVeteran Employment OutcomesJanuary 14, 2025Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO) are new experimental Census Bureau statistics on labor market outcomes for recent Army veterans.
-
Experimental Data ProductBusiness Dynamics Statistics of Coastal Counties (BDS-CC)January 2025The BDS-CC provides annual measures of job creation, job destruction, openings, and closings for businesses and industries in coastal and non-coastal areas.
-
Experimental Data ProductBDS Businesses that Received SBA COVID Response FundsJanuary 2025Experimental business dynamics statistics on recipients and non-recipients of the four main SBA-backed COVID pandemic relief funds.
-
Experimental Data ProductSingle-Family Housing Starts Using Satellite ImageryDecember 19, 2024West South-Central Division estimate of single-family housing starts derived by blending traditional survey data with estimates obtained from satellite imagery.
-
Experimental Data ProductTrade by Industry and Product Statistics (TIPS)December 18, 2024The Trade by Industry and Product Statistics (TIPS) provide granular-level information about the U.S. industries that import and export by type of product.
-
Experimental Data ProductNonemployer Statistics by Demographics Experimental, Wage Work TablesNovember 05, 2024Augments the annual Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics (NES-D) to report on the prevalence of wage work among nonemployers.
-
Experimental Data ProductModeled Tract Area Poverty Estimates (M-TAPE)October 24, 2024The 2021 M-TAPE experimental data provide information on total poverty for all tracts in the United States.
-
Experimental Data ProductBusiness Dynamics Statistics of U.S. High Tech Industries (BDS-HT)October 2024Experimental business dynamics statistics on High Tech and non-High Tech industries, defined by STEM occupation intensity.
-
Experimental Data ProductBusiness Dynamics Statistics of High Growth Firms (BDS-HG)October 2024The BDS-High Growth tables show the stock and flow of establishments, firms, and employment by firm growth rates as well as size, age, industry, and geography.
-
Experimental Data ProductBusiness Dynamics Statistics of Single Unit Firms with Revenue (BDS-SU-REV)October 2024Experimental business dynamics statistics for small businesses with a single location. Includes measures of employment, payroll changes, and revenue changes.
-
Experimental Data ProductBusiness Dynamics Statistics of U.S. Goods Traders (BDS-Goods Traders)October 2024Experimental business dynamics statistics on importers, exporters, and nontraders.
-
Experimental Data Product2022 Local Estimates of Internet Adoption (LEIA)September 09, 2024The LEIA are experimental, county-level estimates of high-speed internet access.
-
Experimental Data ProductMonthly Wholesale Real Dollar EstimatesSeptember 09, 2024The Census Bureau has released the monthly wholesale real dollar estimates of sales and inventories as an experimental data product.
-
Experimental Data ProductCommunity Resilience Estimates (CRE) for HeatJuly 16, 2024The CRE for Heat identifies the specific areas across the country most socially vulnerable to the effects of heat exposure.
-
Experimental Data ProductJustice Outcomes Explorer (JOE)May 01, 2024Justice Outcomes Explorer (JOE) data measure the economic and health outcomes of people who have been involved with the criminal justice system.
-
Experimental Data ProductCommodity Flow Survey Expanded Hazardous Materials (CFS-EHM) EstimatesApril 05, 2024Estimates of the total number of establishments shipping HAZMAT, types of HAZMAT shipped, and the packaging types used at the national and PADD level.
-
Experimental Data ProductCounty Estimates from 2019 American Housing Survey: Signs of RodentsJanuary 15, 2024This experimental data product provides small area estimates of “signs of rodents in the past 12 months” using the 2019 American Housing Survey.
-
Experimental Data ProductVIUS National Estimates with Modeled Estimates for New HampshireSeptember 28, 2023Model-based estimates for the United States, including New Hampshire, for the 2021 Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey.
-
Experimental Data ProductBusiness Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS) DataSeptember 08, 2023Provides insights with timely, high frequency data across all nonfarm sectors of the economy.
-
Experimental Data ProductCensus Bureau Index of Economic Activity (IDEA)February 09, 2023The Census IDEA is an aggregation of 15 of the Census Bureau's primary economic data series that provides a single time series constructed as a weighted combination.
-
Experimental Data ProductMonthly Subnational Construction Spending: Private ManufacturingFebruary 01, 2023This new experimental data product features monthly construction spending estimates at the Census Division level for private manufacturing.
-
Experimental Data ProductSmall Business Pulse SurveyFebruary 11, 2022Measures the effect of changing business conditions during the Coronavirus pandemic on our nation’s small businesses.
-
Experimental Data ProductMonthly State Retail SalesNovember 24, 2020The Census Bureau has released the Monthly State Retail Sales (MSRS) an experimental data product featuring monthly state-level retail sales.
-
Experimental Data ProductPost-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO)April 17, 2020PSEO data provide earnings and employment outcomes for college and university graduates by degree level, degree major, and post-secondary institution
Permanent and Transitioned Products
These products are former Experimental Data Products that have been reviewed and approved to transition or become permanent.
-
Economic Survey2018 Robotic Equipment ExpendituresSeptember 30, 2020Now a standard data product that provides additional detail to the national level estimates measuring investment in machinery and equipment.
-
Economic Survey2019 Capital Expenditures for Robotic EquipmentJuly 12, 2021Now a standard data product that provides additional detail to the national level estimates measuring investment in machinery and equipment.
-
Demographic SurveyCommunity Resilience Estimates (CRE)June 2020The Community Resilience Estimates provide an easily understood metric for how at-risk every neighborhood in the United States is to the impacts of disasters.
-
Demographic SurveyCommunity Resilience Estimates (CRE) for Puerto RicoJune 07, 2023Community Resilience Estimates (CRE) for Puerto Rico measures social vulnerability to disasters at the state/commonwealth, municipio and census tract levels.
-
Economic SurveyMonthly Business Formation StatisticsFebruary 19, 2021Monthly Business Formation Statistics is now a standard data product measuring business applications, formations, and projections of business formations.
-
Economic SurveyMonthly Puerto Rico Business ApplicationsSeptember 11, 2025Puerto Rico business application data are now part of the Monthly Business Formation Statistics standard data product.
-
Economic SurveySupplemental Quarterly E-Commerce TableDecember 04, 2020Supplemental Quarterly E-Commerce Table is now a standard data product providing additional detail to the national estimate measuring retail E-commerce sales.
-
Economic SurveyWeekly Business Formation StatisticsAugust 29, 2024The weekly breakout of business application data will now be released as part of the monthly BFS.
Page Last Revised - December 20, 2024