---
kind: "section"
citation: "13 U.S.C. § 193"
title: "13"
title_heading: "Census"
number: "193"
heading: "Preliminary and supplemental statistics"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/13/193"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Censuses"
  - "Subchapter V — Geographic Scope, Preliminary and Supplemental Statistics, and Use of Sampling"
---

# §193. Preliminary and supplemental statistics


In advance of, in conjunction with, or after the taking of each census provided for by this chapter, the [Secretary](/usc/13/1.md?p=2) may make surveys and collect such preliminary and supplementary statistics related to the main topic of the census as are necessary to the initiation, taking, or completion thereof.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 85–207, § 14, Aug. 28, 1957, 71 Stat. 484.)