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Promotes a better understanding of the U.S. economy by providing the most timely, relevant, and accurate economic accounts data in an objective and cost-effective manner.

Collect, analyze, publish, disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. Its mission is to collect, analyze, and disseminate essential economic information to support public and private decision-making.

Established as a statistical agency in 1992. The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 created BTS to administer data collection, analysis, and reporting and to ensure the most cost-effective use of transportation-monitoring resources. BTS brings a greater degree of coordination, comparability, and quality standards to transportation data, and facilitates in the closing of important data gaps.

"The Business & Economy topic is your portal to comprehensive information about the number, activity, characteristics, and locations of American businesses. The Census Bureau has been collecting information about American businesses for over 200 years. Today, statistics on almost 27 million business locations are among the Nation’s most important. Business statistics are used to help start a business, compare industries and locations, assess the economic health of local communities, or just to make informed decisions."

Access data through products and tools including data visualizations, mobile apps, interactive web apps and other software.

The ERS mission is to inform and enhance public and private decision making on economic and policy issues related to agriculture, food, the environment, and rural development.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service provides timely, accurate, and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture.

To facilitate research in criminal justice and criminology, through preservation, enhancement, and sharing of computerized data resources; through the production of original research based on archived data; and through specialized training workshops in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data.

The Nation's principal health statistics agency - Compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of our people. A resource for health information and a critical element of public health and health policy.

The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), formerly the Division of Science Resources Statistics, was established within the National Science Foundation by Section 505 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (246 KB). The name signals the central role of NCSES in the collection, interpretation, analysis, and dissemination of objective data on the science and engineering enterprise.