# Census Bureau — the long-form archive

Everything Census Bureau has published while this archive has been running: 5 documents across 4 days, oldest first.

Coverage begins on 2026-08-18, which is when this archive started holding Federal Register
issues — not when the agency started publishing. Anything earlier is absent from this page and
its absence is not evidence.

[HTML](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/census-bureau/archive.html) · [the last five days](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/census-bureau/index.md)

## 18 August 2026 — 1 document

> The Census Bureau published a notice inviting public comment on proposed revisions to State and Local Government Finance Collections and Public Employment & Payroll Collections for sixty days.

- **Notice** [Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; State and Local Government Finance Collections, and Public Employment & Payroll Collections](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/18/2026-16791/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-omb-for) · `2026-16791`

## 4 September 2026 — 1 document

> The Census Bureau published notice of three mandatory business surveys it would conduct in 2026.

- **Notice** [Current Mandatory Business Surveys](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/04/2026-18176/current-mandatory-business-surveys) · `2026-18176`

## 9 September 2026 — 1 document

> The Census Bureau published a notice requesting comment on information collection activities for the Business Trends and Outlook Survey.

- **Notice** [Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Business Trends and Outlook Survey](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/09/2026-18304/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-omb-for) · `2026-18304`

## 10 September 2026 — 2 documents

> The Census Bureau proposed regulations for decennial census residence criteria and demographic questions, with comments due October 13, 2026, and ceased the Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections.

- **Proposed Rule** [Decennial Census of the Population of Americans; Proposed Residence Criteria and Proposed Regulations for Demographic Questions](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/10/2026-18481/decennial-census-of-the-population-of-americans-proposed-residence-criteria-and-proposed-regulations) · `2026-18481`
- **Notice** [Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/10/2026-18449/annual-survey-of-state-government-tax-collections) · `2026-18449`

## Ask an assistant instead

Everything on this page is also a tool call. Add `mcp.downstream.sh` as an MCP server — no key, no
account — then paste this:

```
Using the Downstream MCP server at mcp.downstream.sh, call whats_new_since with agency "Census Bureau" since 2026-08-18, then tell me what this agency has been working on and which of its deadlines are still open.
```

Reaches `whats_new_since`. The response carries its own citations and states what it is missing,
including which dates it has no record for.

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Counts are arithmetic over published fields, dates are printed as filed, and titles are verbatim.
Where we have nothing, this says nothing rather than estimating. The one-sentence agency summaries
are machine-written from those same fields and are labelled where they appear.

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