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Attached: 2 images Middle or late last week, Census Bureau updated landing page for the Household Pulse Survey, adding two paragraphs to the introduction [first screencap below]. According to this update, the HPS has not been dormant since last update in October; rather they've been converting over to a new format. The Census Blog (under the category "Random Samplings"), linked to, was apparently published on Sept 16, though there was no obvious link calling it out on various HPS pages before last week. According to said blog, data collection continued in October and December, reflecting an every-other-month sampling strategy, with release of that data to occur with the January re-launch. Unstated is whether the changes will include revision of the underlying questionnaire. A longitudinal design suggests that they will be sampling the same respondents on a repeated basis, rather than an entirely random sample each round. If so, we might anticipate questions being dropped to reduce respondent burden.