---
kind: "section"
citation: "13 U.S.C. § 182"
title: "13"
title_heading: "Census"
number: "182"
heading: "Surveys"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/13/182"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Censuses"
  - "Subchapter IV — Interim Current Data"
---

# §182. Surveys


The [Secretary](/usc/13/1.md?p=2) may make surveys deemed necessary to furnish annual and other interim current data on the subjects covered by the censuses provided for in this title.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 94–521, § 8(a), Oct. 17, 1976, 90 Stat. 2463.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 17, 1976, see section 17 of Pub. L. 94–521, set out as a note under section 1 of this title.