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With the continuing shutdown in Washington, websites of agencies that are affected may still up but are not being updated, or some read “The website you are trying to access is not available at this time due to a lapse in appropriation.” This article summarizes the data flows that have been affected by the government shutdown so far, www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/09/the-data-casualties-of-the-federal-government-shutdown/.
Some agencies were fully funded before the negotiations and have been able to continue to operate. Congress has been funded, so govinfo.gov, congress.gov, and the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications are available and being updated.
25% of the government isn’t funded with this partial shutdown. Agencies most affected are Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, HUD, Interior, Justice, State, Transportation, and Treasury. Agency Contingency Plans are listed on the Office of Management and Budget's website.
For government data that is updated frequently, these alternatives may be used in the interim: ProQuest Statistical Insight and Data Planet, and IPUMS - census and survey data from around the world and ICPSR – social science data. A listing of federal statistical agencies can be found here.
Other useful databases with government information include HathiTrust and CQResearcher.
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine can be used to access websites that are down for earlier content.
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