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APDU 2011 Annual Conference
Public Data on a Budget:
Making Critical Policy Decisions in the Current Fiscal Climate
September 21-22, 2011
George Washington University, The Cloyd Heck Marvin Center
800 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
Preliminary Agenda
Registration Form
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Consequences of Proposed Census Bureau Budget Cuts
The consequences of proposed Census Bureau budget cuts have made national headlines in recent weeks. Read more from The Washington Post and Huffington Post. Director Groves also recently discussed the consequences in his blog.
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Legacy American FactFinder to Be Discontinued This Fall
The Census Bureau will discontinue the legacy version of American FactFinder this fall, and any deep links into the discontinued system will no longer work. The Census Bureau has published the American FactFinder Deep Linking Guide to help ease the transition.
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Census Bureau Adds Interactive Foreign Trade Graphs
The Census Bureau recently added a series of interactive foreign trade graphs to its website. Users are welcome to submit suggestions for additional data series on the site.
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HUD Launches The Edge
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) recently launched The Edge, an online magazine that provides a comprehensive look at the office’s research, periodicals, and publications. The magazine will also feature regular articles, including a message from PD&R Assistant Secretary Raphael Bostic, HUD news, news articles from PD&R staff, Policy Updates, ResearchWorks, Breakthroughs, and Strategy of the Month.
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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 & Quality – Top 10 Most Costly Conditions among Men and Women, 2008: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Non-institutionalized Adult Population, Age 18 and Older
- Bureau of Justice Statistics – Compendium of Tribal Crime Data, 2011
- Bureau of Labor Statistics – Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2010
- Bureau of Labor Statistics – Number and Incidence Rates of Nonfatal Occupational Injuries and Illnesses by Occupation, 2009
- Bureau of Labor Statistics – Persons with a Disability: Labor Force Characteristics Summary
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics – National Transportation Atlas Database
- Census Bureau – Summary File 1 for Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, and Virginia
- Department of Education – Six-Year Attainment, Persistence, Transfer, Retention, and Withdrawal Rates of Students Who Began Postsecondary Education in 2003-04
- Department of Justice – Juvenile Residential Facility Census, 2008: Selected Findings
- Internal Revenue Service – 2008-2009 U.S. Population Migration Data
- Minnesota Population Center – University of Minnesota – Errata in and Revisions Made to IPUMS
- National Center for Education Statistics – 2008–09 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study
- National Center for Education Statistics – The Nation’s Report Card: Geography 2010
- National Science Foundation – Academic Research and Development Expenditures: Fiscal Year 2009
- Pew Hispanic Center – The Mexican-American Boom: Births Overtake Immigration
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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
- Center for Economic Studies Research Proposal and Project Management System (August 10, 2011)
- 2012 Economic Census Covering the Wholesale Trade Sector (August 15, 2011)
National Agricultural Statistics Service
- Distillers Co-Products Survey (August 15, 2011)
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Webinar
Delivering What Users Want: The History of U.S. Census Small Area Data
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
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Since the late nineteenth century, the U.S. Census Bureau has met the growing demand for new types of small area data. Beginning with the 1890 Census, the Census Bureau attempted to make small area data more routine and consistent and expand the scope of such data in its products. The Census Bureau was responding to requests from public health agents who wanted to investigate causes of disease, which, at that time, they saw as overcrowding, poor sanitation, and possibly topography. Tract level data, first introduced in New York City in the 1910 Census, was added for other cities and became essential for social welfare programming, business purposes, and local government planning. Fast forward to the internet age and widespread demand for Block Group and Block Level data for a host of applications. Michael Snow, historian at the U.S. Census Bureau, will present this fascinating history of the development of small area data products.
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C2ER/LMI Training Institute Webinar:
Tips and Tricks for Using the New American FactFinder
July 28, 2011
2:00-3:30 PM EDT
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This webinar will provide a how-to demonstration to get the tips and tricks you’ll need to successfully use the new American FactFinder. The webinar will also cover when the Census Bureau plans to move other data sets, such as the American Community Survey, to the new FactFinder.
Presenter: Nancy Gemignani, Research Specialist, California State Census Data Center – State of California Department of Finance, Demographic Research Unit
Webinar pricing is as follows:
C2ER Members: Free
LMI Training Institute Member States: Free
APDU Members: $25
All Others: $50
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