---
kind: "section"
citation: "13 U.S.C. § 183"
title: "13"
title_heading: "Census"
number: "183"
heading: "Use of most recent population data"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/13/183"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Censuses"
  - "Subchapter IV — Interim Current Data"
---

# §183. Use of most recent population data

- (a) Except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b), for the purpose of administering any law of the United States in which population or other population characteristics are used to determine the amount of benefit received by [State](/usc/13/184.md?p=2), county, or local units of general purpose government, the [Secretary](/usc/13/1.md?p=2) shall transmit to the President for use by the appropriate departments and agencies of the executive branch the data most recently produced and published under this title.
- (b) This section shall not apply with respect to any law of the United States which, for purposes of determining the amount of benefit received by [State](/usc/13/184.md?p=2), county, or local units of general purpose government, provides that only population or population characteristics data obtained in the most recent decennial census may be used in such determination.

## 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.