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Association of Public Data Users

 

APDU Data Update

 

News Items

 

Senate Bill Would Give Census Director a Fixed Five-year Term; Removes Senate Confirmation for BJS and NCES Heads

S. 679, recently introduced at the committee level by Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), proposes a fixed, five-year term for the Census Bureau Director and removes Senate confirmation for the the National Center for Education Statistics Commissioner and the Bureau of Justice Statistics Director.  Learn more about the implications in a recent American Statistical Association blog entry by APDU board member Steve Pierson.
 

 

Latest Edition of The Child Indicator Released

The Child Indicator, the newsletter of Child Trends (a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at all stages of development), was recently released.  The Indicator includes reports and data resources related to child welfare in the U.S. and internationally.
 

 

Notable Data Publications

 

Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases 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):

 

Bureau of Labor Statistics

  • Consumer Price Index Commodities and Services Survey (June 13, 2011)
  • PPI Experimental Aggregation System (July 18, 2011)

Census Bureau

  • Survey of Housing Starts, Sales, and Completions (July 15, 2011)
  • 2011 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (July 18, 2011)

National Agricultural Statistics Service

  • The 2012 Census of Agriculture (July 18, 2011)

National Science Foundation

  • FY 2011 and FY 2013 Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities (July 15, 2011)

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

  • Broadband Subscription and Usage Survey (Supplement to Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey) (June 13, 2011)

 

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May 19, 2011

 

Upcoming APDU Events

 

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.
 

 

Other Events

 

Call for Presentations/Papers:
Patent Statistics for Decision Makers 2011

Deadline: June 6, 2011

The Patent Statistics for Decision Makers 2011 Conference will explore advances in the analysis of patent information in the context of the changing legal, economic, competitive, and technological landscapes.  The Conference aims to educate and share best practices by surveying the breadth of thinking – while exploring the frontiers of our knowledge – on issues relevant to using patent information by industry, academic, and government decision makers, such as: next generation of patent related indicators, such as indicators of patent quality; patent valuation and Intellectual Property (IP) taxation regimes; patenting strategies and patents’ use in knowledge networks and markets; business dynamics

and technology-based entrepreneurship; competitive analysis (including patent mapping and visualization); patenting in growing technical fields (such as clean technologies); planning R&D investments and measuring R&D performance; understanding the operation of the patent system and formulating IP policy reform; and sustaining patent-office operations in a fee-based system.

Learn more about the conference and submit an abstract.