The Census of Governments identifies the scope and nature of the nation's state and local governments; provides authoritative benchmark figures on public finance and public employment; classifies local government organizations, powers, and activities; and measures state and local fiscal relationships.

National survey that collects data from a sample of the resident population in the United States. Housing units in every county in the United States and municipio in Puerto Rico, including institutional and non-institutional group quarters, are included in the sample.

The files provide counts of frequently-occurring surnames and male and female first names in the 1990 Census returns.

The State Government Tax Collections report provides a summary of taxes collected by state for up to 25 tax categories. These tables and data files present the details on tax collections by type of tax imposed and collected by state governments.

The Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) provides key intercensal measures of manufacturing activity, products, and location for the public and private sectors. The ASM provides the best current measure of current U.S. manufacturing industry outputs, inputs, and operating status, and is the primary basis for updates of the Longitudinal Research Database (LRD). Some of the many uses of this data by federal, state, and local governments are measuring productivity, updating producer price indexes, evaluating and forecasting future industrial activity, benchmarking current data on manufacturing shipments and inventories, economic policymaking and forecasting, and preparing annual updates of the GNP and GNP weight deflators.

Provides broad-based monthly statistical data on current economic conditions and indications of future production commitments in the manufacturing sector.

Provides a detailed portrait of business activities in industries and communities once every five years, from the national to the local level.

Identify households with absent parents and provide data on child support arrangements, visitation rights of absent parent, amount and frequency of actual versus awarded child support, and health insurance coverage. Data are also provided on why child support was not received or awarded. April data will be matched to March data.

American FactFinder is the Census Bureau's online, self-service tool designed to search a variety of population, economic, geographic and housing information.

To provide broad and timely measures of combined changes in business sales and end-of-month inventories for domestic retail trade, wholesale trade and manufacturers' activities.