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Understanding the Department of Commerce’s Disclosure Avoidance Order 216-26
The Data Foundation created this resource to help the public, data users, and policymakers better understand Departmental Administrative Order (DAO) 216-26, a June 2026 Department of Commerce directive that changes how the Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) protect the confidentiality of the statistics they publish.
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