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APDU Board Candidates Announced
President – Robert L. Scardamalia, Consultant, RLS Demographics, Inc., Rensselaerville, NY
Vice-President – Warren A. Brown, Senior Public Service Associate, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
At-large Board Member:
Susan Ockert, Senior Research Economist, Montana Dept. of Commerce, Helena, MT
Steve Pierson, Director of Science Policy, American Statistical Association, Alexandria, VA
Joan Turek, Senior Economist, Office of Science & Data Policy, US Dept. of Health and Human Services
Statements by these candidates can be found at the links above.
This announcement opened a 14-day period in which any APDU member (or representative of a member organization) can petition to run for one of the above positions. Petitioning is done by 5 APDU members or representatives of organizational members sending a nomination email to Leonard M. Gaines, chair of the nominations committee. These emails must be received by December 2, 2010. A brief candidate’s statement containing a biographical sketch, your background with APDU, and your goals as a board member also needs to be received by this deadline. Voting will commence following the close of the petition period. Additional information will be sent at a later date.
News Items
HUD Launches New One-Stop Website for Economic and Housing Data
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has unveiled a new Regional Economic and Market Analysis website that brings together a wide variety of economic and housing market data at the regional, state, metropolitan area and county levels. Using data from the Census Bureau, Department of Labor, state and local governments, housing industry sources, as well as HUD’s own field economists, the new website employs interactive maps that allow visitors to access a variety of reports – from a region-wide look at employment and housing activity to individual county-level figures on population trends, rental activity, and vacancy rates.
Census Hosts Webinar on 2010 Demographic Analysis
On December 1 from 1:15-2:00 p.m. EST, the Census Bureau will host a webinar in anticipation of the December 6 release of the 2010 Demographic Analysis estimates of the national population by age, sex, and race. The webinar will help explain the methodology behind demographic analysis, why it is conducted, and how it relates to 2010 Census numbers and other U.S. population figures being released by the Census Bureau. Details available in the Census media release.
Census Invites Proposals for 2011 LED Workshop
The Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Annual Workshop will be held in the Washington, D.C. area on March 9-10, 2011. Registration will open in early January. LED is seeking submissions for presentations and proposals for practical applications of LED data to be presented at the workshop. Detailed information is located here. The submission deadline for presentations is Thursday, December 2, 2010; poster proposals are due Thursday, December 16, 2010. Proposals should be sent by email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
Notable Data Publications
Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical agency data releases and discussions of interest to APDU members.
Calls for Comment
APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections (http://www.apdu.org/advocacy.asp). We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, HUD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Institute of Education Sciences
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
APDU encourages its members to take advantage of these opportunities to make their voices heard. All comments, whether a simple affirmation or detailed suggestions on instrument design, are helpful in seeing that data users have access to the statistics we need.
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Julius Shiskin Memorial Award Seminar, Information Technology and U.S. Economic Growth: Evidence From a Prototype Industry Production Account
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Bureau of Economic Aanlysis
2nd Floor, Conference Room A & B
1441 L Street NW
Washington, DC
Speaker: Dale Jorgensen, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and 2010 Recipient of the Shiskin Award
Professor Jorgenson will present a new data set on U.S. productivity growth by industry. This data set covers 70 industries for the period 1960-2007 and uses the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). An important advantage of NAICS over the SIC is the greater detail available on the service industries that make up a growing proportion of the U.S. economy. NAICS also provides more detail on industries that produce information technology hardware, software, and services. The production of information technology equipment and software has proved to be highly volatile. The great IT investment boom of 1995-2000 was followed by the dot-com crash and the slow and painful recovery of 2000-2007.
The boom of 1995-2000 was generated by an unsustainable deluge of innovation in the production of semiconductors and semiconductor-intensive computers. By contrast, the wave of innovation that followed in 2000-2007 has spread across a broader spectrum of IT-using industries. This has created a diversified advance in the applications of information technology.
SPECIAL NOTE: To be placed on the seminar attendance list at the Bureau of Economic Analysis you need to e-mail your name and affiliation to Vicki Bingham by Friday, Dec. 3rd. Be sure to bring a valid photo ID to the seminar.
The Changing Landscape of Data for Health Services Research and Policy
Thursday, December 9, 2010
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST
Presenter: Erin Holve, PhD – Director, AcademyHealth
The current landscape of health services research is evolving rapidly with the availability of new data streams enabled by access to electronic health information. This presentation will review key data compendia and data resources for health services research and policy, including approaches to accessing data from multiple public and private sources. Privacy considerations and new opportunities arising from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will also be discussed.
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