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A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed in Acts of Greater Transparency

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Pregnancy and Family-related Data​

  • The Trump administration moved to eliminate the Centers for Disease Control’s Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), a research program that collects data about people who are pregnant or have recently given birth. It has been running since 1987 and is “the only national survey dataset dedicated to pregnancy and the postpartum period,” according to Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

HIV/Aids Data ‘TBD’​

  • Data collected as part of the U.S. effort to address HIV and AIDS in foreign countries has been taken offline. The program, started by George W. Bush, is known as the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.

No SNAP, No Measure of Hunger, No Problem?​

  • The Trump administration ended the annual U.S. Department of Agriculture survey on food insecurity, just in time for Republicans’ cuts to SNAP to take effect.

No ‘Short-Term Solution’ for Down Census Bureau Tool​

  • The Census Bureau’s QuickFacts website, which usually lists population estimates over several years; age, sex and race; foreign-born and veteran status; and other demographic information for specific regions, has been down since at least August,

Fifteen-Agency National Climate Assessments Initiative Goes Dark​

  • The U.S. Global Change Research Program, an intra-agency initiative between 15 federal agencies which creates the national climate assessments, went offline in June.

Top Viewed Data Set Ends Updates​

  • The Environmental Protection Agency said it would cease updating researchconnected to its highly viewed greenhouse gas emissions calculator after the researcher who created the database was suspended for criticizing the president.