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Coordinates federal reporting requirements in order to eliminate duplication and reduce costs and burdens on the business community.
Transfers responsibility for the sample surveys conducted by the Works Progress Administration, and responsibility for the Statistical Abstract of the United States to the Census Bureau.
Cancels the manufacturing census of 1943.
Authorizes a census of state and local governments.
Authorizes a 1946 census of business.
Authorizes a census of governments in 1952 and every five years thereafter. Information on state, territory, county, and municipal governments to be collected on, at a minimum, the following subjects: "taxes and tax valuations, government receipts, expenditures, indebtedness, and employees."
Collects and codifies the various laws governing the statistical activities of the Census Bureau in Title 13 of the U.S. Code.
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