---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2902"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2902"
heading: "Surveys of Coast Guard families"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2902"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 29 — Coast Guard Family Support, Child Care, and Housing"
  - "Subchapter I — Coast Guard Families"
---

# §2902. Surveys of Coast Guard families

- (a) **Authority.—** The Commandant, in order to determine the effectiveness of Federal policies, programs, and activities related to the families of Coast Guard members, may survey—
  - (1) any Coast Guard member;
  - (2) any retired Coast Guard member;
  - (3) the immediate family of any Coast Guard member or retired Coast Guard member; and
  - (4) any survivor of a deceased Coast Guard member.
- (b) **Voluntary Participation.—** Participation in any survey conducted under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be voluntary.
- (c) **Federal Recordkeeping.—** Each individual surveyed under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be considered an employee of the [United States](/usc/14/2941.md?p=4) for purposes of [section 3502(3)(A)(i) of title 44](/usc/44/3502.md?p=3-A-i).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 113–281, title II, § 214(a), Dec. 18, 2014, 128 Stat. 3029, § 532; renumbered § 2902, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 117(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4230; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXV [LXXXV], § 8505(a)(47), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4750.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2902 was renumbered section 5102 of this title.

### Amendments

2021—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “individual” for “person”.

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 532 of this title as this section.