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Guardian DataBlog Highlights New Data and Visualizations from Around the World
The website of the U.K. newspaper The Guardian publishes a blog of timely data updates from sources around the world. The DataBlog indexes data by topic, has a data explorer that enables users to analyze U.K. government data for the purposes of publishing on the blog, and enables users to search for data sets.
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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: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey – Trends in Health Care Expenses and Utilization for Children under Age 18 Reporting Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in the U.S. Civilian Non-Institutionalized Population, 1996 and 2008
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Sports Related Concussions, 2008
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Foreign-Born Workers: Labor Force Characteristics – 2010
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Pay Comparisons Among Metropolitan Areas, 2010
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Productivity and Costs by Industry – Selected Service-Providing and Mining Industries, 2009
- Census Bureau: Current Population Survey – 2010
- Census Bureau: The Hispanic Population – 2010
- Census Bureau: Public Elementary-Secondary Education Finance Data
- Child Trends: Foster Care Data Snapshot
- Department of Health and Human Services – Office of Applied Studies: Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions That Were Labor Force Dropouts
- National Center for Education Statistics: Education and Certification Qualifications of Departmentalized Public High School-Level Teachers of Core Subjects – Evidence from the 2007-08 Schools and Staffing Survey
- National Center for Education Statistics: The Condition of Education 2011
- National Center for Education Statistics: Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools – Findings From the School Survey on Crime and Safety, 2009–10
- RAND Corporation: Demographic Trends, Policy Influences, and Economic Effects in China and India Through 2025
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Webinar:
Company Summary on Women-, Veteran- and Minority-Owned Businesses
June 7, 2011
2:00 PM EDT
The Census Bureau will hold an audio news conference to release data for all business groups cross-tabulated by gender, ethnicity, race, and veteran status of owners. Separate data estimates are provided for minority- and nonminority-owned businesses and those owned equally by minorities and nonminorities. The data cover employer and nonemployer firms and include sales and receipts, annual payroll, and employment for 2007. Data are classified by industry, geography, employment, and receipts size.
Audio Conference
Toll free number: 800-779-9312
Participant passcode: CENSUS
Online Presentation
Log in early, some setup is required.
Conference number: PW5025465
Participant passcode: CENSUS
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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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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
- 2012 Economic Census Covering Utilities; Transportation and Warehousing; Finance and Insurance; and Real Estate and Rental and Leasing Sectors (July 1, 2011)
- 2012 Economic Census Covering the Retail Trade and Accommodation and Food Services Sectors (July 1, 2011)
Health Resources and Services Administration
- HIV Clinician Workforce Study (July 26, 2011)
Office of Justice Programs
- Prison Population Reports: Summary of Sentenced Population Movement – National Prisoner Statistics (June 27, 2011)
U.S. Geological Survey
- Ferrous Metals Surveys (June 30, 2011)
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Special Note:
Please be aware there will not be an APDU Data Update next week. The update will return Thursday, June 16th.
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Webinar:
Statistics of Governments: A General Overview
June 15, 2011
1:00 – 2:00 PM EDT
Register
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Census of Governments program provides for the collection, tabulation, and dissemination of financial statistics of the nearly 90,000 state and local governments in the United States. These data provide the only source of comprehensive and uniformly classified data on the economic activities of state and local governments. This presentation will provide an overview of the Census of Governments (CoG) and its related annual and quarterly programs, including the three basic components of the CoG: organization, employment, and finance. It will explain how the data are defined and why they may be different from other data on state and local governments.
Presenters:
- Christopher Pece, U.S. Census Bureau
- Dr. Donald Boyd, Rockefeller Institute
- Jackie Byers, National Association of Counties
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