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2010 U.S. Decennial Census in an International Context
2010 and 2011 have marked major census data releases in the U.S. and around the world. As data analysis continues to wrap up, opportunities exist for putting U.S. Decennial Census statistics in context with recent censuses in India and China. Data users can find more information from official census sources, including the Indian government’s Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner and the National Bureau of Statistics of China. The Population Reference Bureau also recently published an analysis of Indian census data, available here.
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Notable Data Publications
Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics: Characteristics of Suspected Human Trafficking Incidents, 2008-2010
- Census Bureau: 2010 Census Demographic Profiles and Interactive Map for the District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia
- Department of Agriculture: Food CPI and Expenditures – CPI for Food Forecasts
- Department of Agriculture: State Fact Sheets
- Department of Health & Human Services: Major Depressive Episode and Treatment Among Adolescents – 2009
- Department of Health & Human Services: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component-124 – 2009 Jobs File
- National Center for Education Statistics: The Nation’s Report Card – Civics 2010
- National Center for Education Statistics: Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment and Staff From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2009-10
- National Center for Education Statistics: Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2008-2009
- National Center for Education Statistics: A Snapshot of Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools: 2009-2010
- National Center for Education Statistics: 2010 Digest & Mini-Digest of Education Statistics
- StateHealthFacts.org: States with Projected Budget Shortfalls, SFY2013
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Webcast:
Live UStream Event – Educational Attainment
May 6, 2011
11:00 AM EDT
Learn more about new Census Bureau data on educational attainment during the Census Bureau’s live UStream event. UStream is the Bureau’s new social media channel brought to you by their Center for New Media. The event will feature Kurt Bauman from the Bureau’s Education and Social Stratification Branch. Kurt will be taking questions from the public live during the event on Facebook and Twitter.
Access the webcast through Facebook or the UStream Channel.
Learn more about the data release here.
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Workshop:
2011 Consumer Expenditure Survey Microdata Users’ Workshop
July 27-29, 2011
Washington, DC
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The CE Expenditure Survey Microdata Users’ Workshop is geared to microdata users of all levels of experience, from new and novice users to seasoned experts. Participants receive both hands on instruction on how to compute results from the microdata and attend presentations describing both methodology and results of recent research.
More Information
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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):
Census Bureau
- Annual Retail Trade Survey (June 27, 2011)
- Annual Survey of Manufacturers (June 27, 2011)
- Commodity Flow Survey (June 27, 2011)
- Government Units Survey (June 27, 2011)
- Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Wave 11 of the 2008 Panel (July 1, 2011)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) (July 2, 2011)
Institute of Education Sciences
- Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS 2011/12) Full Scale Data Collection (June 2, 2011)
Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD
- County Data Record Project (June 3, 2011)
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Webinar:
User Perspectives on ACS
5-year Data
May 11, 2011
2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT
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Have you been working with the American Community Survey 5-year estimates to produce profiles for small areas? We have, and we’d like to share what we’ve found and present some tips. Ken Hodges is a business demographer with Nielsen, and Warren Brown is a state demographer with the University of Georgia. Drawing upon our work with small places, tracts, and block groups, we’ll explore some of the curious data relating to estimates and their reliability and suggest ways to improve your profiles, such as combining geography and collapsing categories.
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Webinar:
Challenges and Improvements for the 2012 Commodity Flow Survey
May 25, 2011
2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT
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The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) has long been recognized as one of the flagship data collection programs of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The CFS collects data from approximately 100,000 American businesses and provides the most comprehensive public data on the movement of goods in the nation. Data are provided on the types of commodities shipped, origins and destinations, values, weights, modes of transport, distance shipped, and ton-miles. Initiated in 1993, the CFS has been conducted in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau as a component of the Economic Census. As such, it is conducted on a 5-year cycle with previous surveys in 1993, 1997, 2002, and most recently in 2007. Planning is now underway for the next CFS in 2012. This webinar will discuss the special challenges of this survey and planned improvements for the next cycle.
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