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NSF Releases Pilot Tabulation Engine for Survey of Earned Doctorates
The SED Tabulation Engine is a pilot data tool that the National Science Foundation is testing to provide access to selected variables from the Survey of Earned Doctorates. The tabulation engine includes a disclosure control mechanism that protects the identity of respondents when using the gender, citizenship, and race/ethnicity variables. Try the Tabulation Engine and submit your feedback.
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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 Labor Statistics: 12-month private industry compensation costs, March 2010–March 2011
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment during the 2007-2009 recession
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Share of married-couple families with an employed mother at its lowest, 1994-2010
- Census Bureau: 2010 Census Demographic Profiles for Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Puerto Rico, and Wisconsin
- Census Bureau: Fertility of American Women: 2010
- Department of Health and Human Services: Headaches in U.S. Hospitals and Emergency Departments, 2008
- Department of Labor: Women’s Employment During the Recovery
- Economics and Statistics Administration: U.S. Trade in Private Services
- Kaiser Family Foundation: Women’s Health Care Chartbook – Key Findings from the Kaiser Women’s Health Survey
- National Center for Education Statistics: Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Local Education Agencies From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2009-10 – First Look
- O*NET Resource Center: Crosswalk Search – O*NET-SOC 2009-2010 Taxonomy & Military Occupational Classification
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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):
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- National Animal Health Monitoring System; Feedlot 2011 Study (June 9, 2011)
Census Bureau
- State and Local Government Finance Forms (June 9, 2011)
Department of Labor
- Consumer Price Index Commodities and Services Survey (June 13, 2011)
Energy Information Administration
- Monthly Biodiesel Production Survey (July 5, 2011)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- National Ocean Recreational Expenditure (NORE) Survey (June 6, 2011)
National Science Foundation
- Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering (July 11, 2011)
Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD
- Assessment of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Housing Needs (July 5, 2011)
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Webinar:
Challenges and Improvements for the 2012 Commodity Flow Survey
May 25, 2011
2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT
Register
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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News Conference:
Census Bureau to Release New Data About Veteran-Owned Businesses
May 17, 2011
10:00 AM EDT
Audio Conference
Toll free number: 1-800-779-9312
Participant passcode: CENSUS
Online Presentation
Conference/meeting number: PW7580604
Conference/meeting passcode: CENSUS
The U.S. Census Bureau will hold an audio news conference to release new data about veteran-owned businesses from the 2007 Survey of Business Owners. The data show the number and percent of veteran-owned businesses and sales and receipts at the national, state, and local levels, as well as other details. These are the first-ever estimates of all veteran-owned businesses in the United States. Separate estimates are also available for nonveteran-owned businesses, as well as for businesses that are equally owned by both veterans and nonveterans.
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Webinar:
Local Employment Dynamics Partnership Webinar: Data Cubing with the Quarterly Workforce Indicators
May 18, 2011
1:30 – 2:30 PM EDT
Learn More & Register
The Census Bureau and Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Steering Committee will host the next webinar in their monthly webinar series: Data Cubing with the Quarterly Workforce Indicators. Presenter James Salomon was awarded the LED Partnership Award for Innovation for this product at the 2011 LED Partnership Workshop. In this webinar, James will demonstrate the Washington State LED Data Cube. James will introduce the tool, provide a live demonstration, explain why a tool like this is useful, and demonstrate what can be done with it. Technical notes on creating a data cube will be available following the webinar.
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