Economic and Statistics Administration

• Pages: 123-124

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 123

The Trade Adjustment Assistance

program helps U.S. f‌irms and industries

injured as the result of economic

globalization. A nationwide network of

Trade Adjustment Assistance Centers

offers low-cost, effective professional

assistance to certif‌ied f‌irms to develop

and implement recovery strategies.

For information on the EDA’s regional

off‌ices, visit http://www.eda.gov/

AboutEDA/Regions.xml.

For further information, contact the Economic Development Administration, Department of Commerce,

Washington, DC 20230. Phone, 202–482–2309. Fax, 202–273–4723. Internet, http://www.eda.gov.

Economic and Statistics Administration

Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230

Phone, 202–482–3727. Internet, http://www.esa.doc.gov.

Under Secretary for Economic Affairs REBECCA M. BLANK

Deputy Under Secretary NANCY POTOK

Associate Under Secretary for Management KIM WHITE

Chief Economist MARK E. DOMS

Director, Bureau of the Census ROBERT GROVES

Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis J. STEVEN LANDEFELD

The Economics and Statistics

Administration (ESA) provides broad

and targeted economic data, analyses,

and forecasts for use by Government

agencies, businesses, and others, as well

as develops domestic and international

economic policy. The Under Secretary

is the chief economic adviser to the

Secretary and provides leadership and

executive management of the Bureau of

the Census and the Bureau of Economic

Analysis.

ESA provides key business, economic,

and international trade information

products that American business and

the public can use to make informed

decisions through www.stat-usa.gov.

Bureau of the Census

[For the Bureau of the Census statement

of organization, see the Federal Register

of Sept. 16, 1975, 40 FR 42765]

The Bureau of the Census was

established as a permanent off‌ice by

act of March 6, 1902 (32 Stat. 51). The

major functions of the Census Bureau are

authorized by the Constitution, which

provides that a census of population shall

be taken every 10 years, and by laws

codif‌ied as title 13 of the United States

Code. The law also provides that the

information collected by the Census Bureau

from individual persons, households, or

establishments be kept strictly conf‌idential

and be used only for statistical purposes.

The Census Bureau is responsible for the

decennial censuses of population and

housing; the quinquennial censuses of State

and local governments, manufacturers,

mineral industries, distributive trades,

construction industries, and transportation;

current surveys that provide information

on many of the subjects covered in the

censuses at monthly, quarterly, annual,

or other intervals; compilation of current

statistics on U.S. foreign trade, including

data on imports, exports, and shipping;

special censuses at the request and expense

of State and local government units;

publication of estimates and projections of

the population; publication of current data

on population and housing characteristics;

and current reports on manufacturing, retail

and wholesale trade, services, construction,

imports and exports, State and local

government f‌inances and employment, and

other subjects.

The Census Bureau makes available

statistical results of its censuses, surveys,

and other programs to the public through

printed reports, CD–ROMs and DVDs,

the Internet and other media, and

prepares special tabulations sponsored

and paid for by data users. It also

produces statistical compendia, catalogs,

guides, and directories that are useful in