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Bureau of Transportation Statistics Announces Upcoming Webinar Schedule
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics recently announced its webinar schedule for 2011. Webinars will feature overviews of BTS data and include question and answer sessions. All webinars begin at 3 p.m. Eastern as follows:
- Airline Data Overview – June 16
- International Data Overview – July 28
- National Census of Ferry Operators – August 17
- Transportation Services Index – September 14
- Omnibus Household Survey – October 13
Participants can access all of the webinars online here and call in for audio using 1-877-336-1839, passcode 2683607. For more information, contact Dave Smallen at 202-366-5568.
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Notable Data Publications
Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Complicating Conditions of Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2008
- Bureau of Economic Analysis: Updated RIMS II Multipliers
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Consumer Expenditures in 2009
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Entrepreneurship and the U.S. Economy
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Fatal Occupational Injuries and Nonfatal Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, 2008
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the United States, 2010
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages by Census Division, 2010
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Preliminary Multifactor Productivity Trends – 2010
- Census Bureau: 2011 Capital Spending Report: U.S. Capital Spending Patterns, 2000-2009
- Census Bureau: 2010 Census Demographic Profiles for the United States, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia
- Census Bureau: Geographical Mobility – 2009-2010
- National Center for Health Statistics: An Overview of Home Health Aides – United States, 2007
- National Science Foundation: Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities
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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):
Administration for Children and Families
- Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being–Second Cohort (NSCAW II) (June 24, 2011)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Green Technologies and Practices Survey (June 23, 2011)
Employment and Training Administration
- Unemployment Insurance Data Validation Program (June 20, 2011)
National Agricultural Statistics Service
- Generic Clearance of Survey Improvement Projects (June 24, 2011)
Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD
- Section 8 Random Digit Dialing Fair Marketing Rent Surveys (June 23, 2011)
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UStream event:
2010 Census Brief Detailing the Hispanic Population
May 31, 2011
2 PM EDT
Join Census Bureau statisticians as they discuss new details on the Hispanic population in the United States as outlined in the newly released 2010 Census Brief. The demographers will discuss the growth and geographic distribution of Hispanic origin groups, such as Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban, and will take questions from the public live during the event on Facebook, Twitter, and via email.
Access the event via Facebook or UStream.
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Public Meeting:
Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee Meeting
June 17, 2011
8:30 AM – 5 PM
Bureau of Labor Statistics
2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Conference Rooms 1-3
Washington, DC 20212
Register
The Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee Meeting advises the Directors of the Economics and Statistics Administration’s two statistical agencies, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Census Bureau, and the Commissioner of the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics on methodology and other technical matters. The meeting is open to the public, and a brief period is set aside for public comments and questions. Persons with extensive questions or statements must submit them in writing at least three days before the meeting. For more information, contact Barbara K. Atrostic at 301-763-6442.
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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.
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